Gulgong couple Pam and Bruce Davis will join a national “Convoy of No Confidence” arriving in Canberra on August 22.

The convoy is seen as direct action against the Federal government’s carbon tax and banning of live exports to Indonesia.

Leaving Katherine (Northern Territory) on August 17, the joining convoy will meet at Parliament House where guest speakers will deliver their “vote of no confidence” in the current government.

Mrs Davis said routes for the convoy were still being finalised and the couple will most likely join at the closest point to Gulgong.

“It’s exciting,” she said.

“We need to show Australia is a country worth fighting for.”

The Gulgong resident said she was concerned the way Australia was heading.

“Real people want to be heard,” she said.

“We don’t want to be told what is best for our country.”

She said policies such as the carbon tax needed to go to an election to let the country decide.

“MPs need to be held accountable for this groundswell from the grass-roots of the country,” she said.

Mrs Davis said she first heard about the convoy on Sunday through the Just Grounds Community – an online social network.

Just Grounds Community member and president of the National Road Freighters Association, Mick Pattel, is organising the convoy.

Currently the convoy’s main leaving point is Katherine but the Mudgee Guardian understands it will also leave from several places in northern Queensland, southern Victoria and Western Australia to meet in Canberra.

Mrs Davis said it did not have to be just trucks entering the convoy as she will most likely travel in the couple’s Landcruiser.

“People are making banners for their vehicles, businesses are making banners for when the convoy comes through their town and of course all the drivers will have Australian flags,” she said.

Mr Pattel told the Beef Central website that industry across regional Australia could no longer bear the burden of a Government beholden to minority green and independent interests.

For more information on the convoy log on to www.justgroundsonline.com