Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We've got ourselves a convoy. I reckon those of you who are of my vintage—and I'm looking at you, Senator Cadell—probably remember the great movie Convoy from the US about the truckers. We're going to have a convoy in Perth this Friday, a Keep the Sheep convoy, which is going to go through the city once more to inform all Western Australians about the disgraceful treatment of our sheep industry by this Labor government. The Keep the Sheep convoy will be rolling through Perth, and I encourage all Western Australians to give them a thumbs up, a clap and a cheer because they're standing up for the farming families of Western Australia. They're standing up for you to be able to have a chop on your barbecue that actually comes from WA and is not imported from the eastern states. They're standing up for having vibrant communities in Western Australia—places like Katanning, Lake Grace and Darkan, places that are under threat of extinction from this Labor government's policy.

These are real people's lives Labor is playing with for the sake of a few preferences from the Animal Justice Party. If it wasn't so disgraceful, you would laugh at it. The fact that the Labor government is willing to trade off a whole industry in Western Australia for the sake of a few Animal Justice Party preferences in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra should be enough just on its own to see this government turfed out. I encourage all Western Australians to get out on the street and cheer for that convoy as it rolls through the streets of WA. Support our farmers, our shearers and our truckies. (Time expired)