Truckies have used their vehicles to send the message.

The Keep the Sheep campaign has confirmed plans to hold a national rally in Canberra on September 10 outside Parliament House.

Campaign spokesman Ben Sutherland said people had tried writing submissions and calling MPs, but they had not been heard and it was now time for politicians to see farmers and truckies on their doorstep in Canberra.

“Albo has seriously underestimated Australian agriculture,” he said. “So far, he’s listened to activists and noisy minorities, but ignored farmers, truckies and regional communities.

“So, we’re bringing the campaign to him.”

Mr Sutherland said the rally would highlight the Albanese Government’s failures across agriculture.

“We’ve seen the Government push through the ban on live sheep exports, but we also have a mounting pile of evidence that they don’t care about issues across the board outside major capital cities,” he said.

“At a time when Aussies are struggling to put food on the table, why would the Government make life any harder for farmers and regional communities?”

Mr Sutherland, who is a Ravensthorpe livestock transport contractor, is also Livestock and Rural Transport Association of Western Australia vice president.

Last month he told a parliamentary committee that the LRTAWA represented the majority of WA livestock transport businesses, and a large proportion of those transporters also carted rural commodities.

“It is important to note that I’m also speaking on behalf of transporters that carry a range of commodities such as hay, fodder, grain and fertiliser, and they too, as well as those businesses that actually cart the sheep, are heavily impacted by the decision to ban live export of sheep.

“The breadth of the impact of this decision across our industry appears to have been lost in the discussion and, I believe, is not recognised sufficiently by the phase-out panel’s considerations.”

As Keep the Sheep campaign spokesman he said sheep producers were not the only ones that had been ignored by the current government and were under attack from activists.

“We’re inviting all agriculture and regional industries from across the country to stand with us and share this historic day as a platform to be heard,” he said.

“Keep the Sheep is proud to have people from all over the country coming to the capital to take a stand and we urge everyone who feels strongly to join us.

“See you in Canberra!”

The national rally will be held at the lawns in front of Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday, September 10 at noon.