On Monday activists planned the coordinated action on abattoirs and city centres to coincide with the Dominion Documentary anniversary. Nine people were charged after chaining themselves to a conveyor at a Goulburn abattoir. 

At 4am on Monday officers from Hume Police District were contacted and attended the scene, after the owner asked the people to leave and they allegedly refused.

Goulburn Police Rescue cut the people free and arrested them at the scene. Three men, aged 22, 22 and 46, as well as six women, aged 21, 21, 26, 28, 28 and 61, were taken to Goulburn Police Station where they were all charged with enter enclosed lands, interfere with conduct of business and hinder police.

The 46-year-old man, 61-year-old woman and one of the 28-year-old women were bailed to appear at Goulburn Local Court on Wednesday, May, 15.

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The other 28-year-old woman and both 21-year-old women were bailed to appear at Goulburn Local Court on Wednesday May 22. The remaining three, a woman aged 21 and two men aged 22, were bailed to appear at Goulburn Local Court on Wednesday, May 29.

"These activists have totally trespassed ... mind you they were probably wearing leather shoes," Mr McCormack said.  "Seriously go and get a job ... do something that is real and honest," he said. 

"These animal activists just want to stop farming as we know it," he said. Mr McCormack said police had better things to do and the actions of the activists were un-Australian. 

A post saying "we are not here to make friends, we are here to make change," was on the Facebook page Vegan Rising. Legion DX Sydney issued a statement: "We are here peacefully and non-violently, to draw the Australian public's attention towards the inherent cruelty in animal agriculture."