Lisa Findlay, nominated by the Animal Justice Party for Gold Coast Division 1, brings over 10 years of experience in various managerial roles with a focus on animal, people, and environmental advocacy. Her campaign centers on updating animal welfare laws, securing funding for community programs, and ensuring government decisions benefit all community members.
Findlay emphasizes the need for innovative approaches to address community, environmental, and animal welfare issues.
The Animal Justice Party (AJP) envisions a kinder Australia, advocating for the ethical treatment of animals alongside responsible environmental stewardship. It focuses on policy areas crucial to animal welfare such as ending puppy farming, factory farming, live animal export, and hunting.
Beyond animal issues, the AJP adopts positions aligned with its core values of kindness, equality, rationality, and non-violence on broader societal matters, including reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, and environmental policies. The party opposes the use of 1080 poison for animal population control, advocates for the decriminalization of cannabis, and supports measures to address climate change, emphasizing the harmful impacts of animal agriculture.
The AJP promotes a legislative framework that prioritizes animal rights, including the banning of live animal exports, and the phase-out of animal experimentation. Additionally, it champions access to abortion, proposes raising the age of criminal responsibility, and supports a comprehensive approach to asylum seekers, reflecting its commitment to a compassionate and equitable society.
The Animal Justice Party is also known as Animal Justice, Ajp.