Recent News & Updates
Stay up to date with what we’re doing to end live animal exports and find out about our upcoming events.
Changing hearts and minds at the Hyde Park Festival
We recently took our message to the streets, hosting a stall at the popular Hyde Park Festival in North Perth over two days. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who gave up their time to help us raise awareness and funds to help the victims of live export! The stall was a huge success, generating a lot of interest from the public, new memberships, petition signatures, and bringing in much needed funds from donations and the sale of our merchandise. It was lovely to meet some more of our supporters at the event in person too! 🙂 Events like this require resourcing. Please continue to donate...
Sign our petition to Premier Roger Cook
As part of our ongoing campaigning, we’ve developed a petition urging the Western Australian State Government to support an end to live sheep exports by sea. We call upon Premier Cook to join his fellow Australians, and his Federal counterparts, in supporting the end of this cruel trade and transitioning to a more humane, sustainable and ethical alternative, a position that would be consistent with the 2022 WA Labor Platform 82–83 regarding live export, that recognised that “there are strong economic, jobs and animal welfare reasons for transitioning from the live export trade to domestic...
Help spread the word on social media
Our social media campaigning continues, but so does the live export industry’s. They have many more funds and resources than us – please help us be a loud, constant voice for the animals by following us on Facebook, Instagram or X (Twitter) and share our posts far and wide! Please also use your voice to let the decision-makers know you want live exports to end! We’ve made it easy for you by providing their contact details in the comment sections of our Facebook posts.
Federal Cabinet Meeting Perth Rally
When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Ministers came to Perth for their Federal Cabinet meeting, we were there to remind them that the majority of Australians want live export to end – sooner rather than later! As part of our campaign we had brand new signage targeting the PM made, to ensure he received our message loud and clear! Thank you to fierce animal welfare advocate Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who dropped everything to fly across the country to lend her support, and to our stalwart supporter, State Member for South Metropolitan Region Brad Pettitt MLC, who once again took time out...
Open letter to politicians
We have joined 11 other leading animal welfare organisations in an open letter calling for exporters to walk the talk and show they are serious about animal welfare - by immediately applying a voluntary suspension on all live animal exports to or through the Red Sea and around the Cape of Good Hope, while animals are at risk of Houthi Rebel attacks. Read the letter here. We will continue to campaign in collaboration with fellow animal welfare organisations to amplify our voice for the victims of live export. Please continue to donate and share our Go Fund Me link with your networks, so we...
Fremantle rally for the Bahijah tragedy
In light of the horrific Bahijah tragedy, we recently held a rally at Fremantle Port to campaign against the animals being re-exported for another cruel 33 day journey at sea. Thank you to the hundreds of caring people who braved peak hour traffic to cross the city at short notice and be a voice for the animals! It was a great turn out that received widespread media attention, helping to get our message out to the public and generate additional support. Thank you to our loyal supporters Federal Member for Fremantle Josh Wilson MP and State Member for South Metropolitan Region Brad Pettitt...
Say thanks to Ag Minister Murray Watt and PM Anthony Albanese
On Friday (3 March), we came one step closer to relegating live sheep exports at least, to the dustbin of history, as the current government announced the first step towards phasing the cruel trade out of existence with the reveal of its Independent Transition Panel, comprised of experts in their field and chosen to guide the government on the best way to implement the phase-out. Would we like to see the trade end tomorrow? Of course, but that's just not feasible without creating a repeat of the 2011 live cattle to Indonesia suspension and the subsequent billion-dollar+ class action bill...
ABC Investigation into the sinking of live export vessel, Gulf Livestock 1 in September 2020
Tragically, MV Gulf Livestock 1 struck a typhoon whilst en route to China from New Zealand in September 2020. All but two of the 43 crew and all 5,867 heifers on board perished, demonstrating just how risky live animal export is for human and non-human animals. The event was a large contributing factor in New Zealand's decision to ban all live animal exports by sea (effective April 2023). The ship had loaded cattle in Gladstone, Queensland that very month. Would the Australian government have a more favourable opinion on banning all live exports by sea had the ship originated from Australia...
Stop Live Exports – President’s Report Oct 2022 AGM
2022 heralds a new direction for Stop Live Exports. Our decades of advocating on behalf of animals has been heard by the Albanese Government who has committed to ending live sheep exports. This is incredible news and we should all be extremely proud of our efforts! The Committee and I cannot thank our supporters and volunteers enough for your dedication and perseverance. Thank you, for writing to the decision makers, for sharing our communications and for attending the Human Chain event year after year, standing on the Stirling Bridge in full sun, the wind and the rain, refusing to give up...
Eleven years of Stop Live Exports’ Human Chain
Many of you may be wondering and a few have asked “is there a Stop Live Exports Human Chain this year?” At our zenith, we saw over 1200 people on this bridge, but numbers have dwindled year by year, and if we can’t have a consistently strong show of support on the bridge, we would rather switch our tactics. We have stood on the Stirling Bridge for 11 years, come stinging rain, chilling wind or blistering sun and we thank all those who turned up year after year to remember and pay tribute to the millions of animals who have passed over that bridge on their way to slaughter in foreign...