This is part one of some of the highlights, achievements, and milestones from our campaign over the past year.
Building on our campaigning work in 2010 and early 2011, WSPA worked with Federal Labor MP Janelle Saffin to introduce a Private Members Motion to end live exports into Federal Parliament on March 21, 2011. Supported by 5 other MPs, this marked the first time that the issue of live animal export has ever been debated in Parliament. Ms Saffin and MP’s Dick Adams and Melissa Parke, highlighted the inherent risks, particularly for farmers, of a trade that is vulnerable to the demands of the importing countries.
A few months later, in May 2011 we launched our new Humane Chain website with a built-in tool, making it easy for supporters to write customised letters to Members of Parliament, voicing concern about live exports. So far over 28,000 of you have taken this action demonstrating clear opposition to the trade!
May also saw the launch of our Humane Campus Challenge in which students from 8 universities across Australia competed to see who could generate the most meaningful action on their campus, raising awareness of the cruelty of the live export trade. In the end, these passionate students generated over 1,500 letters from fellow students and community members – nearly half of which came from Southern Cross University the competition winner, followed by University of Sydney.
Students participating in WSPA’s Humane Campus ChallengeOn May 31, 2011 live animal export became headline news, following the shocking Four Corners report which revealed Animals Australia’s investigation into the shocking treatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs.
The cruelty that was uncovered outraged the Australian public and none of us will forget what we saw.
In Part 2 of our Year-End Wrap-Up we’ll look at the actions WSPA supporters and staff took both locally and globally in the second half of 2011.
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