Q&A with Georgie Purcell & Ines Kostic
Last week, our Member of Parliament Ines Kostic from the Party for the Animals had an amazing Q&A with Georgie Purcell.
Georgie Purcell is an animal activist and Member of Parliament for the Animal Justice Party in Victoria, Australia. She wants more rights for animals in the law. And that more young people are represented in politics. So then there is only one thing to do: become a politician yourself. She is the youngest woman in parliament and is known for her criticism of "the constant sexualisation and objectification" women face in Australian politics. But what she would rather talk about: Kangaroo meat, skins Duck hunting and Horse racing.
Georgie does not call herself an average politician. On Instagram (with more than 200,000 followers) she shows how you can get into parliament as an 'ordinary' person.
From all over The Netherlands members of the Party of the Animals attended the evening of the Q&A in The Hague.
Our Member of Parliament Ines Kostic had the pleasure to ask Georgie many questions, in which many topics were discussed and those present also had the opportunity to ask their questions. Some topics that Georgie spoke passionate about was the import and export of kangaroo skins in Europe and the use of poison gases to kill wild cats in Australia.
It was a great evening in which we all learned a lot about Georgie Purcell and her work for the animals in Australia.
Demonstration in The Hague
The afternoon of the Q&A, Georgie had taken action with the Party for the Animals against the sale of kangaroo in The Hague. Together with Party leader and faction leader Esther Ouwehand of the Party for the Animals, Georgie demonstrated in front of the Decathlon & Intersport to demand the stop of selling kangaroo products.
Kangaroo hunt
The hunt for wild kangaroos is unimaginably cruel: one and a half million kangaroos are shot or seriously injured every year and die after days or weeks. These practices are therefore held in stands partly by Decathlon and Intersport. We therefore called on these companies to stop this. Many people signed our petition and manifesto.