The Animal Justice Party candidate for Eden-Monaro will fight to form a national office of animal protection and change legislation to consider animals, if she is elected.
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Frankie Seymour, of Queanbeyan, said the government needed to consider the impact of its own policies on animals.
“I have been involved with animals rights for a long time and have seen so little process, mainly the lack of progress is because the impact on animals is not considered in government policy at any level,” Mrs Seymour said.
“The aim is the get a systemic change in which animals are considered in policy and we believe the best way for that to happen is through a national office of animal protection and for commonwealth legislation in that area.”
Mrs Seymour said the list of animal issues in the Eden-Monaro were “huge”.
“Recreational hunting, the culling of Brumbies and extensive livestock farming are just some of them,” she said.
“Recreational hunting to us is odious. It is disgusting that people would kill and hurt other beings for pleasure. I have talking about recreational, not hunting for food. That is an area in which I hope to be very active in here.
“We are strongly opposed to the culling of Brumbies in the Snowy Mountains area. It is a problem that can only be solved through fertility control.
“We would like to help farmers who are farming livestock extensively and are increasingly facing the terrible problems or drought and floods and strong winds and fire. We believe the commonwealth should be helping people move to plant-based agriculture wherever possible.
“A movement to plant-based agriculture will help the farmers, the animals, global poverty and the environment.”
Mrs Seymour will visit Narooma on June 4.