Dr WEBSTER (Mallee) (25/03/25 13:48): I rise this afternoon to call out inner-city green activists who are seeking to destroy farming in this country. Western Victorian farmers have worked the land for generations but are being put out of business by the ideological protection of dingoes and wild dogs, which cruelly attack, gut and leave sheep to die a slow death—until farmers find them and give them the bullet the dingoes should have had. Farmers are powerless to protect their livestock from this shocking fate. This hypocritical position—where wild dogs are seen as endangered, with no scientific evidence, and sheep are left to die in pain—beggars belief. Astoundingly, animal activists are dead silent on the mutilation and torture of livestock.

As a result of this activist driven political agenda, masked with two-faced lies, Victorian farmers feel they are being shut down like their colleagues in Western Australia. Green activists—who will be holding Labor to ransom if they hold the balance of power in a minority government post the election—promote cruelty to farmers and sheep. But the Nationals will not stand for it.

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