Eleven animal rights' campaigners who allegedly staged protests at an abattoir and feedlot in Queensland's Darling Downs region have been charged with trespass and drug offences, which includes fines of more than $600.
"We take animal welfare very seriously and so does an overwhelming majority of our agricultural businesses," Agricultural Industry Development Minister Mark Furner said.The government announced on Sunday the Biosecurity Regulation 2016 will be amended to include the penalty for those considered to be a threat to biosecurity and animal and worker welfare.
Three sheep that were rescued by protesters from a Queensland abattoir being cared for at a sanctuary at Dayboro, north of Brisbane, April 9, 2019These charges follow arrests for trespass made earlier this month of two activists who allegedly organised a protest at Lemontree Feedlot in Millmerran, 205 kilometres west of Brisbane, on 23 March.
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