To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:

The Petition of the undersigned notes the inadequate numbers of livestock available for Australian slaughter, food consumption and hides; the increase in Australian abattoir closures; the growing negative economic, employment and social impacts on rural Australia; and the unnecessary suffering endured by Australian livestock because of this nation's pursuit of trade and financial benefits at any cost. Your petitioners call on the members of the Senate to end the live export trade now in favour of developing an Australian chilled and frozen halal and kosher carcass trade using humane slaughtering practices.