Mia Davies
Prime Minster Anthony Albanese refused to attend the National Farmer Rally outside Parliament House, ignoring farmers who travelled from Western Australia to take a stand against the Labor Government’s anti-farming agenda.
MP Mia Davies said the Prime Minister had once again demonstrated complete contempt towards farmers and rural, regional and remote Australia.
“For the Prime Minister to ignore our farmers, many who have spent days driving to Canberra from Western Australia, shows once again that Labor doesn’t care about our agriculture industry,” Ms Davies said.
“Our Prime Minister isn’t interested in helping or even listening to those who produce our nation’s food and fibre, and the newly minted Agriculture Minister Julie Collins failed to show her face as well.”
“All our farmers want is a fair go, it’s not too much ask for Government to listen and understand just how much pain they are causing to communities and businesses impacted.”
The National Farmer Rally organisers were calling for sensible changes including scrapping the truckie tax, scrapping new taxes for biosecurity and superannuation, scrapping unnecessary red tape from emissions reporting and getting a better balance when it comes to renewables projects that encroach on prime agricultural land.
“They turned up in solidarity for our sheep producers here in WA who have ben thrown under the bus by the Albanese Labor Government,” Ms Davies said.
“The rally was the biggest in a generation – it has been more than 40 years since farmers from the Wheatbelt have marched on Parliament House because a federal government has made then feel so aggrieved.
“I was proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in solidarity with people who had travelled from all over Australia to be in Canberra for the rally.
“It was appalling that the PM and his Agricultural Minister were just metres from the event but wouldn’t step outside Parliament House to address the crowd.”
Ms Davies said she hoped the Labor candidate for Bullwinkel would not blindly follow the PM and Federal Agriculture Minister’s example, and stand up to her east coast colleagues.
“I don’t hold much hope, but the very least the Labor candidate could do is front up to the communities impacted,” she said.
