To the Honourable the Speaker and the Members of the House of Representatives assembled in Parliament:

This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House that:

The Federal Government has approved a grant of $5 million to fund a facility in Churchill, Victoria, for the breeding of laboratory monkeys to be used in research.

The billions of dollars invested annually in animal research would be put to much more efficient, effective and humane use if redirected to clinical and epidemiological research and public health programs.

Your petitioners therefore ask the House to:

Rescind the grant to fund the building of a facility for the breeding of monkeys which will be harmed or killed in the course of research;

Instead provide funding for the development and utilisation of research techniques which do not use animals at any stage.