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Dear friends,

For four years Animals Australia has been fighting for justice on behalf of the victims of the live animal export trade through the West Australian legal system. At a critical moment, a West Australian Minister has de-railed this process, effectively protecting the live export industry—your help is urgently needed to correct this injustice!

In February this year, a Perth Magistrate found leading live export company Emanuel Exports Pty Ltd guilty of breaching the WA animal welfare act—in effect legally determining a key part of the live export industry to be cruel. Despite this, the Magistrate acquitted the live export company on a technicality—a decision that is now believed by the State Solicitor to have been in error. The State Solicitor subsequently lodged an appeal in the WA Supreme Court. Justice was finally in sight...

In a devastating development, the Minister for Local Government Ljiljanna Ravlich issued instructions for the appeal to be withdrawn. Animals Australia believes it to be totally unacceptable for a government minister to intervene in judicial proceedings once they have commenced.

The live export company and its two directors were on trial for unnecessarily causing suffering and death to thousands of animals. Their guilt or innocence, and any consequences of their actions, should only be determined in a court of law—not by the whim of a politician. Minister Ravlich has given the live exporters a 'get out of jail free card', despite the State Solicitor's advice that they should not have been acquitted.

Millions of animals exported live from our shores each year need your help now to assist us to call on Premier Alan Carpenter to overturn this decision and to instruct the State Solicitor to reinstate the appeal process.

We cannot allow the WA State Government to think this miscarriage of justice has gone un-noticed. We cannot allow politicians to protect live exporters—rather than the millions of innocent animals who are victims of this trade.

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