Keep the Sheep celebrates historic day at National Ag Rally

Keep the Sheep campaigners and supporters have sent a strong message to the Albanese Government, amassing thousands of supporters to the lawn at Parliament House in Canberra to protest the government’s ban on live sheep exports.

The campaign celebrated people joining the rally from across Australia, coming from as far afield as Darwin, Broome, North Queensland and Adelaide to show their frustration.

Armed with a 50 strong convoy of trucks and vehicles that converged from Yass and Goulburn, Keep the Sheep spokesman Ben Sutherland celebrated the excellent turn out. “It’s a busy time of year for farmers, but people feel so strongly about the government ruining our livelihoods, they came out in force today.”

Mr Sutherland said that attendees were ropeable that neither the Prime Minister nor the Agriculture Minister, Julie Collins came out to address the crowd. “People are hurting already as a result of this policy and no Government representatives turned up to listen to their concerns…..even when we came right to their doorstep,” he said.

With approximately 2000 people in attendance, the rally demonstrated the frustration that farmers have felt about many aspects of the government’s anti-farming policies and added to the nearly 100,000 signatures on the petition.

Mr Sutherland said the day was a success and the campaign wouldn’t stop.

“We have demonstrated in Perth, Muresk and now in the capital of Australia. The Government should know, we won’t rest until either the policy or the government is overturned – whichever comes first.”
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