In South Australia it will become ILLEGAL to capture footage of ANIMAL CRUELTY within Animal Agriculture. Those who do so risk imprisonment for 3 years!

SIGN this petition to support an amendment bill which will change this law, deeming animal welfare in the interest of the public & therefore making it legal for animal advocates to capture footage of animal abuse & release it to the public.

Unjust laws like this are known as Ag-Gag (Agricultural Gag) laws.

Please support freedom of information & the exposure of the systematic animal cruelty which takes place all over Australia within the Animal Agricultural Industry.

If this amendment does not pass, capturing footage of animal agricultural cruelty will be illegal in South Australia and MILLIONS OF ANIMALS will continue to suffer in silence on a daily basis.

THANK YOU FOR BEING A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS.

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In South Australia the current Surveillance Devices Act 2016 states that those who capture animal cruelty on factory farms, greyhound industry, puppy farms etc. face up a $15,000 fine or 3 years imprisonment for such actions. This is considered Ag-Gag (A gag on animal agriculture) where by freedom of information is suppressed & the public are kept in the dark about where their animal products come from & how the animals are treated before slaughter.

LINK TO THE LEGISLATION [Issue of concern Section 6 (1) & (2) on page 9.]

https://legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/V/A/2016/SURVEILLANCE%20DEVICES%20ACT%202016_2/2016.2.UN.PDF

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"The Bill seeks to amend the Surveillance Devices Act 2016 (SA), which unintentionally introduced ag-gag laws into South Australia. Ag-gag laws operate to silence animal advocates, and have the effect of reducing transparency, and enabling the concealment of animal cruelty, in animal use industries.

The work of animal advocates has been crucial in exposing animal cruelty in a number of animal use industries – including factory farms, the greyhound racing industry and puppy farms. This is why the proposed Bill seeks to amend the Act, by:

- Creating a presumption that the use of a surveillance device to obtain material relating to animal welfare will be in the public interest, and therefore permissible under the Act; and

- Permitting the public release of material derived from a surveillance device, where the device was used in the public interest and the information relates to animal welfare.

The Australian Labor Party has already committed to opposing ag-gag in its National Platform & Constitution, and Deputy Premier John Rau has stated repeatedly that the Act is not intended to be ag-gag. Amendments are needed to ensure these intentions are adequately reflected in the Act." ~ Voiceless.org.au

LINK TO THE AMENDMENT BILL 

https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/B/CURRENT/SURVEILLANCE%20DEVICES%20(ANIMAL%20WELFARE)%20AMENDMENT%20BILL%202016_HON%20TAMMY%20FRANKS%20MLC/B_AS%20INTRODUCED%20IN%20LC/SURVEILLANCE%20WELFARE%20AMENDMENT%20BILL%202016.UN.PDF

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