Holly Ludeman from The Livestock Collective warns that phasing out live sheep exports will devastate WA communities.
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00:00Keep the sheep! For our farmers! Keep the sheep! For our shearers! Keep the sheep! For our truckies! Keep the sheep! What do we want? Keep the sheep!
00:10Well we were in Canberra this week pleading for a full Senate inquiry and we didn't get that and the bill has been rushed through to phase out live sheep exports by sea.
00:19And that is really going to decimate our rural communities and stop us having a really strong sheep and wool industry in Western Australia which is critical for those rural towns.
00:29So we're here in the new seat of Bulwinkle doing our first letter drop to try and talk to the community about why this is really important.
00:38And so Bulwinkle, why have you targeted this seat?
00:40Well I think the committee and the group have decided on three marginal seats.
00:45So there's Huslark, Bulwinkle and Tagbeer to start with and then we'll keep going from there.
00:50We've already got 64,000 signatures. We've got over $400,000.
00:55So the community at large, especially the rural towns, are really behind this at a time where they've been hit by tough seasons and now uncertainty with a political decision.
01:06The support package offered is insulting. It doesn't allow for meaningful transition to keep that strong sheep and wool industry, to keep shearers in our towns, to keep the IGA going, to keep the local pub going.
01:17Our truckies, all those salt of the earth people have been out this week because this will impact them.
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