Animal Welfare

2885. Hon Alison Xamon to the Minister for Agriculture and Food:

I refer to the revelations of animal abuse on Western Australian cattle farms exposed in a December 2019 broadcast and the Minister’s commitment to fast track regulation to make it an offence to de-horn six month old cattle and older without painkillers, and I ask:

(a)  can the Minister please advise the current status of these proposed regulations; and

Motion

HON RICK MAZZA (Agricultural) [1.06 pm]: I move —

That this house acknowledges the agriculture sector as an essential service and recognises impediments that impact farming enterprises including, but not limited to —

(a)  trespass by activists;

(b)  environmental green tape;

(c)  supermarket purchasing power; and

(d)  nuisance neighbours