‘Farmers are urged not to engage with the advisory process, not to accept any transitional payments, and not to legitimise the panels or peak bodies with their attendance at meetings‘
The heat has been turned up under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s seat by former federal Senators Rod Culleton, Bob Day, and Len Harris, all condemning the Labor Government’s plan to ban the live sheep export trade.
up the heat under Labor Environment
Minister Murray Watt for trying to ban live sheep exports with ALP ideology
The Senators maintain that banning trade is a constitutional breach, a political fix, and a consent-by-deception trap engineered through advisory panels and complicit peak bodies.
Rod Culleton, a former Senator and active West Australian farmer whose operation included a feedlot supplying both domestic and international live export markets, says the ban is a direct assault on trade which is protected under Section 51(i) of the Commonwealth Constitution.
“This is not ‘Keep the Sheep’ — the sheep aren’t going anywhere,” Mr Culleton said.
“This is about ‘Keep Shipping Sheep’. It’s about lawful, constitutionally protected trade. Section 51(i)of the Commonwealth Constitution gives the Commonwealth power to regulate trade — not destroy it and Murray Watt is a Brisbane solicitor, so he should be aware of this protection.
has former Senators Bob Day
and Len Harris all warning Murray
Watt he is on shaky Constitutional
ground
“What Minister Watt and now Agriculture Minister Julie Collins are attempting is executive overreach, and we won’t be conned into consenting to it.
“Collins and her Labor mates got a wake-up call at Saturday’s Tasmania election and she needs to tread carefully.”
Queensland’s renegade MHR Bob Katter added fuel to the fire saying he did not trust Liberal leader Sussan Ley to support farmers who export live sheep or cattle.
“Sussan Ley introduced a private member’s bill into the Lower House in 2018 that would ban live sheep exports to the Middle East during the northern hemisphere summer months in 2019 and close the sector down entirely in five years,” Mr Katter said.
The former Senators are warning farmers that the Government’s hand-picked advisory committee is being used to engineer the illusion of consent, not consultation. Rather than engage farmers directly, the government had lured peak bodies into public forums and media appearances to give the impression of broad consensus—knowing full well that many farmers are not members, have not given consent, and do not authorise these organisations to speak or negotiate on their behalf.
Day has thrown his weight behind
WA farmers
“This is a deception,” said Mr Culleton.
“The advisory panel is not the Parliament. It’s a front. Peak bodies are sitting down with them, chasing the next National Party endorsement, while the government uses their presence to claim consent from the wider farming community.
“We don’t authorise them. They don’t speak for us.
“In July 2024, the three former Senators served a Quo Warranto notice — a constitutional demand to “show your lawful authority” — on Minister Watt. They believe this service triggered his quiet removal as Agriculture Minister and was replaced by Julie Collins, who has since tiptoed around WA, unwilling or unable to respond to the lawful demand.
“A Quo Warranto rises above ministerial discretion. It’s a constitutional test — and they failed it. Julie Collins has inherited a legal mess, and she knows it. Her office is still in possession of an unanswered Quo Warranto, and until it is satisfied, she lacks constitutional legitimacy to outlaw trade under Section 51(i).”
Mr Culleton urged farmers not to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal action that could not succeed due to the separation of powers doctrine.
“Courts cannot interfere with parliamentary proceedings. The High Court cannot strike down a law before it is made. This is a political battle, not a legal one — and it will be won by the people refusing to participate in this deception. Consent is their weapon. Starve them of it.”
The Senators are aware that many farmers are not members of these peak bodies and do not authorise them to speak, act, or negotiate on their behalf. These groups had no authority to negotiate the closure of an industry they do not own.
Farmers are urged not to engage with the advisory process, not to accept any transitional payments, and not to legitimise the panels or peak bodies with their attendance. To do so is to give the Government the very thing it needs to close this industry: consent. A number of Farmers across Australia are now rejecting all transitional payments, stating that accepting money is giving consent—and gives the Government the one thing it cannot take: your lawful agreement.
“Every dollar you accept, every meeting you attend, every handshake with an advisory panel is being used against you. This is not consultation. It’s theatre. It’s engineered to show public and parliamentary support where none exists. Refuse to attend. Refuse to engage. Refuse all compensation. Keep Shipping Sheep,” he said.
The former Senators also dismissed state-level protests as insufficient believing a live export ban is not a matter that can be effectively addressed by protests or actions confined to individual states.
Culleton said the ban is a federal government decision made under Commonwealth law affecting the entire national live export industry. While state-level protests showed passion and commitment, they cannot on their own stop a federal prohibition.
He said it was absolutely essential that farmers and communities across all states came together simultaneously in a coordinated, united campaign. Only a strong, national voice would have the power to hold the Commonwealth government accountable and protect this industry for all Australians as Section 51(i) of the Constitution protects trade and commerce.
The Government’s unlawful order cannot prohibit lawful export to appease lobbyists, secure political preference deals, reward fringe activist parties or please some obscure UN policy.
“If this goes unchallenged by the people, it sets a dangerous precedent. Today it’s live sheep. Tomorrow it could be cattle, grain, iron ore or coal.
“This ban is a test of how far the Commonwealth can go in shutting down industries without lawful authority.”
For comment or further information, contact: Rod Culleton Former federal Senator & WA farmer rod.culleton@greataustralianparty.com.au
UIB quoted – “… insects and other
invertebrates are more efficient at converting feed to meat…”
Except that it’s NOT meat. But hey, chickens are mighty efficient at converting THAT disgusting shit into real juicy succulent chicken meat, which is why chickens are the most delicious creatures in all of God’s Creation. Sure sucks to be a chicken.
And I can convert lawn clippings to compost with literally no energy input and just a couple square feet of land to do that, too. But that’s not meat either.
And just BTW, folks, any little kid can convert a bit of dirt and water into delicious-looking mud pies. And guess what, THAT’S not meat either, but creepy Bill will bend over backwards to convince everyone that it is, if he thinks he can squeeze a few billion cash out of it and kill a few million people while he’s at it. Hell, he’ll even pay a few “scientists” to add some flavour and texture modifiers to give it “real mouth feel” so you can hardly tell the difference!
On the other hand, creepy Bill’s man-boobs are ALL meat – creamy, squishy, soft, flabby, warm, utterly adorable Billy-Boy meat. Pity someone hasn’t fed creepy Bill alive into a wood chipper to supply a local barbie somewhere. If you want to poison everyone at the barbie, that is. Or just for fun, because no-one on Planet Earth deserves it MORE than creepy Bill. Maybe ask any one of his many MILLIONS of victims all over the planet – except you probably can’t, because most of them are DEAD.
And just BTW, folks, Real Men don’t eat Quiche, and they don’t eat creepy Bill’s pureed maggot and cancer-tumor fake “meat” either. Because who in their right mind would knowingly and willingly chow down on textured 3D printed TUMORS from a dead woman’s cancer? That’s right, folks, that’s PRECISELY what you’re eating when you chew and swallow creepy Bill’s lab-grown “Wonder Meat”.
Maybe creepy Bill should lead the way and demonstrate just how delicious and nutritious it is by eating a bucket or two on live TV every morning and noon and evening until he dies – which of course he will, real soon, just like he intends for us
And then we can all celebrate and finally get a good night’s sleep.
As or cruelty, while the sheep may be lacking cable TV in every pen, they’re no doubt treated with maximum care and provided maximum living conditions for the simple fact sheep’s lives matter.
It’s all about profit and there’s zero profit in dead or traumatised sheep (human sheep exempted).
Liz I’m sure all here agree there’s no place for cruelty, there’s also no place for using cruelty as a tool to manipulate the public.
The WEF aren’t hiding they have every intention of controlling the world’s food chain and eliminating animal meat from our diet is part of it.
What’s important is not only recognising emotional coercion, it’s rising above it.
Animals need a lot of training before they end up as your pet, or on a funny video. Wild animals get different training and live by different rules. These commercial sheep are almost brain dead having had their faces in the grass, munching all their lives.
The animal lovers are usually refugees from perceived human mistreatment. One sub-group of animal lovers is the cat lovers, these people make less sense than all the others put together. The cat treats you nice because you are at the apex. The cat inflicts all kinds of cruelty on smaller animals, when it can find one. Feral cats are a scourge, but the animal lovers defend them.
Who knows what a semi-brain dead sheep thinks or feels when it’s on a boat. A wild mountain goat would no doubt have some different thoughts.
Quiet Observer. Agreed. No place for cruelty. Anyone who thinks otherwise? Happy to book you and your family on the next live export ship out and see what you have to say after a couple of days on board.
… and in 2019 ..
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Alternative_Proteins.pdf
Here’s another relevant link ..
https://cairnsnews.org/2022/09/25/how-the-wef-is-getting-rid-of-farmers-and-fertiliser-by-eating-insects-and-removing-co2/
“Compared to traditional livestock, insects and other
invertebrates are more efficient at converting feed to meat.
Insects require little land, water and labour, generate
few GHGs and raise few animal welfare issues.”
The above quote is on page 18 in the 2018 WEF White Paper linked to below.
One day I’ll be reading the comments on CN and someone will have already posted a link to the WEF website where almost every issue can be found long before it happens (though I’m not holding my breath) .
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/White_Paper_Livestock_Emerging%20Economies.pdf
Lemme guess… If someone wanted to export live sheep or cattle they could not do so because ‘it cannot be done’ in a decent and humane manner, right?
Of course, there can’t be sensible laws and rules for such things so the ONLY solution is to destroy yet another element of our primary industry sector? Right?
Why do I get the feeling some Twatts are pressing us to choke off our milk, meat, fish and egg supplies in favour of rocks and dust.?
Why do we Aussies suffer these Twatts so readily these days? Used to be a time when we’d tell them where to get off quick smart!
Besides, when it comes to sheep and Twatts, I reckon we’d be much better off exporting them rather than importing them.
I say NO to sending animals overseas to be picked up, put in someone’s boot and carted off to die. After a beautiful, quiet farm life, what fear they must experience, not counting the awful form of transport. Sorry farmers. Let the countries who want our livestock build giant freezers instead.
We are not here to satisfy someone else’s religious practice.
At least Susan Lee has some humanity and won’t agree to them being sent to the Middle East in Summer.
I expect to be howled down. So be it. That’s my opinion.
Commenter liz
It’s perfectly humane, especially compared to life in the wild, where animals routinely eat each other even while they are still living
Politicians pushing unlawful offshore NWO Agendas without referendums even on topics that the unlawfully established government corporation tries to force down public throats, should be a real agenda that would make the public rise up in disgusted objection about. and against.
These top political bureaucratic ‘gods…that they think they are should be strung up for treason for the damage to Australian culture that they cause.
LETTING THESE FAKE POLITICIANS RULE AND REIGN OVER US WITHOUT A MONARCH TO SUPERVISE THEM AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE LEGISLATIONS IS STUPIDITY ON OUR PART.
GET SOME GUNS AND THREATEN THEM.
As a 5th generation Australia with forbears who served in the military for this country, and the fact I love every grain of sand in this land, no one could accuse me of any kind of lack of patriotism but the live export business has to end.
Why? Because it cannot exist without cruelty- sometimes extreme cruelty. Not only are the conditions on board awful for already scared and anxious animals, but a proportion of deaths is always factored in – like freight loss is of inanimate cargo. No way to treat an animal. Many of the countries to which our livestock go have no animal welfare laws or standards – these animals have no protection at all. Covertly filmed footage of the way they can be treated is not for the faint hearted.
Culleton deserves respect and has done a lot for people on the land but his promotion of live export is sheer vested interest and opportunistically seizes the chance to line his “patriotism” up with the genuine concern that this government is one of the biggest threats to its own farmers.
The real issue here is profit at any cost. The government’s pretty good at this. Point is, you can’t object to their tactics when you’re applying the same principles yourself.
No one who calls themselves any kind of farmer would condone cruelty – if they do, then put them out of business, I say.
Why is Cairns News being a willing mouthpiece for the promotion of cruelty for profit? Why, are the rights of animals dismissed as conspiratorial or merely a means of political manipulation?
Culleton’s efforts ought to be put toward establishing abattoirs, etc., to slaughter and export humanely.
If it’s true that the old order crumbleth, then it’s time to let barbaric practices of any kind crumble along with it.
I just noticed Murray spelled backwards is Yarrum, the name of a dying Victorian town, and we all know the anagram for Watt. Before him there was Tanya Plibersek now due to failure moved into welfare to outgun that nice Susan Ley with more niceness than you could ever imagine actually coming true except in this age of forced unemployment and hyperbolic spiralling debt it might, with Katy Gallagher holding the pork barrel cannon the farmers are going to have to pay the interest bill on this forever debt too !!! The townies are only producing boxes of archives now and almost nothing of exportable value.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/labor-reportedly-set-to-forgive-more-than-1bn-in-welfare-debts-following-court-ruling/news-story/f4da5bfc7d2f925565ac290e931f7239
Model of virtue Tanya now busy stamping out the memory of former ALP party leader Latham whom the G-G never got to sack. Tanya should be more forgiving after all she forgave her husband for being a convicted drug importer. And Murray Watt will be delivering the “carbon bomb” and has been pardoned in advance.
What sort of animal is the ALP ? How can it survive ?
One glance at Murray Watt doing his Encyclopedia Bullshittanica routine is enough, if I was a farmer it would be “pass the bucket please”. I am a townie and hopefully will stay well clear of farms for the duration. Therefore, the farmers need to short-circuit operations like BlackRock’s Coles and WW duopoly and bring the produce direct to townies. How this is done in Asia is that a designated parking spot is provided in any given suburb market area, something like one of those hyper-abundant handicap parking spaces which are normally empty, so the farmers can load up a pickup truck and retail their rockmelons or sheep quarters etc to the public. The councils will make excuses because THEY ARE THE PROBLEM HERE and you already know why, the developer gets his wife on the council and the council CEO is beholden to god knows who. It’s time for all the farmers to start cutting out the middlemen with deadly intent. The middlemen have devolved into A BUNCH OF SABOTEURS
Murry watts is a clown in a circus of clowns .
cataclysmic duck said – “… Why wait eight years…”
It’s what I heard – from Socrates.
Which is kind of ironic, seems about the only intellect on the planet that knows what’s going on and what’s coming down the pipes just happens to be the world’s longest-lived and most meticulously and consistently accurate genuine AI program, and that an exclusively specialised economic forecasting platform no less.
But to your point, as for Australia, it’s going to be an extremely close-run thing, given Australians will DEFINITELY be the impoverished persecuted minority after another eight years of THREE MILLION Third World immigrants FLOODING into the country PER YEAR and having lots and LOTS of children, courtesy of insatiable Globalist sycophant AnAL and his Uniparty Bumbandit Regime.
Why wait eight years Pat.
Every day they take a yard.
In eight years there won’t be a light pole tall enough to enable them perform their dead mans dance.
They’ll still be walking around barking like a dog on their master’s leash.
“Lawful Authority”, folks, that says EVERYTHING in a nutshell.
The foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION has none.
It has only gotten away with DECADES of unmitigated Treason against this country and its people through intentional systematic deception and the uninformed unwitting illegitimately contracted obedience of the Australian people.
IMO the entire rotten edifice will ultimately be brought crashing down by sturdy rope and lamp posts. Just eight more years, folks, seven by this coming Christmas, so clench those butt cheeks in delirious anticipation of the coming mournfully belated advent of justice – albeit far too late for the many hundreds of thousands of casualties in this relentless remorseless war against Humanity.
Murray Watts is a moron, in a government of morons. There is nothing else to say