Protecting animal welfare and boosting agricultural profitability aren’t competing aims – they support one another. The growing demand for high quality food produced in an ethical way means Australia’s agricultural producers must embrace the highest animal welfare standards to stay internationally competitive. When last in government, Labor put in place a comprehensive animal welfare strategy and took a lead role in coordinating this through the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and the Standing Council on Primary Industries (SCoPI).
anti-imperialistic, for example against controlling other countries and for greater self-government of colonies