THE WORST CRUELTY and CORRUPTION EXPOSED!

Animal Australia’s brave investigators risked everything to gather crucial evidence within the Live export industry, which has just been released on the ABC, says Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party Lead Candidate in Tasmania, Suzanne Cass.

‘Stand strong with us, and and rally against this brutal industry in light of Animals Australia’s exposure of the some of the most brutal animal abuse we have seen,’ said Ms Cass.

DATE: Saturday, June 25
TIME: 12 noon
LOCATION: Franklin Square, Hobart

‘The Department of Agriculture is reportedly in turmoil as media reports emerge exposing the horrific sledgehammering of Australian cattle reportedly some of the worst cruelty ever documented in the live export trade to date’ said Ms Cass ‘ We know that. It’s not new. Corruption is rife within this vile trade’.

Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party says that, with the looming federal election, THIS IS THE TIME for the Australian public to tell our politicians what we think about the live export trade, and that THIS IS THE TIME to END this heinous trade once and for all.

The Vietnamese abattoirs’ standard operating procedures do not meet the Exporters Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) requirements, a system that was put in place in 2012 to protect Australian animals from being brutalised. Vietnam has already had a number of breaches in the past, going as far back as 2013.

‘There was a clear admission from the industry of that’, said Ms Cass.

‘We have had ENOUGH of being told that there will be investigations. Countless legal complaints from this and other markets have gone nowhere, some as far back as 2014. Without Animals Australia’s investigations, the truth would have remained hidden from the Australian community. I think we have had enough, and, in a recent poll, 86& of decent, caring, VOTING Australians agree. The ESCAS system was never intended to do more than try and appease us, because Australia cannot enforce a thing in another sovereign country. And it’s always left to a charity to expose it’.

The Party says that every day that the live animal export industry is allowed to continue, more animals face the cruelty of treacherous journeys on the old, substandard ships, and the animals who survive these treacherous journeys face painful and terrifying deaths. It is neither quick, nor without torture.
Suzanne Cass, Justice Party Lead Candidate for the Senate in Tasmania