Aussie Pigs: News Coverage

#1. Tuesday 16 Sep 2025 by ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Hundreds of pigs have died after a piggery north of Adelaide went up in flames.

#2. Tuesday 16 Sep 2025 by Lauren Thomson (7 News)

The farm remains at the centre of an ongoing investigation by the RSPCA and police.

#3. Monday 15 Sep 2025 by Taylor Mason and Karen Grace Prince (The Advertiser)

A major blaze has ripped through a piggery previously investigated for animal cruelty.

#4. Monday 15 Sep 2025 by Quinton McCallum (Stock Journal)

A piggery in Dublin is ablaze amid an ongoing investigation into animal cruelty. RSPCA and emergency crews are attending.

#5. Monday 15 Sep 2025 by Arj Ganesan (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Emergency crews are battling to bring a fire under control at a large piggery in Dublin, on the Adelaide Plains. Hundreds of pigs are feared to have been killed.

#6. Friday 12 Sep 2025 by Sam Lowe (The Advertiser)

A business embroiled in a major animal cruelty investigation has come under further scrutiny over claims of a “mass grave” at an SA piggery.

#7. Friday 12 Sep 2025 by George Yankovich (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

An activist group has released footage taken at four SA piggeries showing animals in shallow graves and potential instances of cannibalism. The footage shows animals in sow stalls, which the pork industry's peak body aimed to phase out by 2017.

#8. Tuesday 26 Aug 2025 by Quinton McCallum (Stock Journal)

An SA piggery raided due to animal cruelty was certified under the pork industry's major quality assurance program.

#9. Friday 13 Sep 2019 by Michael Dahlstrom (Yahoo News Australia)

Footage shown to Yahoo News Australia shows rodents swarming and dead, rotting animals inside a commercial piggery in NSW. Rats swarm the walls, run around the pigs and eat the bodies of the dead.

#10. Saturday 27 Feb 2016 by (AsiaOne)

Kicked. Beaten. Ridden on while being artificially inseminated.

#11. Tuesday 23 Feb 2016 by Stacey Lee and Nicholas McCallum (7 News)

Animal rights activists have recorded shocking abuse and conditions on video and more than 800 photos inside a piggery north of Adelaide.

#12. Tuesday 23 Feb 2016 by (ABC)

Graphic footage of pigs being kicked, beaten and ridden while being artificially inseminated, allegedly taken at a piggery north of Adelaide, has been released by an animal rights group.

#13. Tuesday 23 Feb 2016 by (SBS)

Footage of alleged animal abuse at a SA piggery has been released by Animal Liberation which says an RSPCA investigation is underway.

#14. Monday 22 Feb 2016 by Candace Sutton (Daily Mail Australia)

Animal activists have secretly filmed scenes at a South Australian piggery where workers beat, kick and ride sows as they artificially inseminate them.

#15. Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by (Voiceless)

Last week, RSPCA NSW dropped all animal cruelty charges against Wally's Piggery, a factory farm located just outside Canberra. The high profile case was dismissed from Yass Local Court after both the prosecutor, RSPCA NSW, and lawyers acting for Wally's Piggery

#16. Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by Jessica Cole (Yass Tribune)

Activists and animal rights groups are frustrated by the discussion of Australia introducing ‘ag-gag’ laws similar to the US, saying they will help farmers get away with animal cruelty.

#17. Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by Jessica Cole (Yass Tribune)

Animal Rights activist and website designer of aussiepigs.com, Chris Delforce, originally published the Animal Liberation ACT and NSW video footage from inside Wally’s Piggery.

#18. Friday 21 Nov 2014 by Henry Belot (Sydney Morning Herald)

Animal cruelty charges against the now defunct Wally's Piggery at Murrumbateman have been dropped. In October, Valent (Wally) Perenc, 64, Stephanie Perenc, 58, and their financial backer WSL Investments Pty Ltd, pleaded not guilty to a total of 53 charges

#19. Thursday 20 Nov 2014 by (Animal Defenders Office (ADO))

The ADO is extremely disappointed to learn that the serious animal cruelty charges laid against the managers of Wally's Piggery have been dropped and the case against them dismissed in the Yass Local Court on Monday 17 November 2014.

#20. Sunday 16 Nov 2014 by Ann Arnold (ABC Background Briefing)

Animal welfare activists are at war with pig farmers, targeting and secretly filming piggeries across the country. They say it's the only way to force changes to farming and slaughtering practices, but farmers say their livelihoods and families are being t

#21. Tuesday 22 Jul 2014 by Colin Bettles (Farm Online)

Australian lawmakers and livestock industry groups are trying to disguise "ag-gag" laws to assist their introduction in Australia, says animal rights activist Chris Delforce.

#22. Monday 7 Jul 2014 by Colin Bettles (Queensland Country Life)

Varying political forces have weighed into the debate over proposed new laws aimed at curtailing illegal trespass activity on farms by animal rights activists.

#23. Wednesday 25 Jun 2014 by Lucy Barbour & David Claughton (ABC Rural)

A new animal rights group called Aussie Farms will publish video footage every night this week of what it describes as animal cruelty in Australian piggeries.

#24. Friday 20 Jun 2014 by Colin Bettles (Queensland Country Life)

An escalating anti-pig farming campaign shows no signs of slowing, vindicating Australian Pork Limited's (APL) move to seek backing from the Australian Farmers Fighting Fund.

#25. Wednesday 7 May 2014 by Jason Marks (The Corowa Free Press)

Disturbing footage has emerged, reportedly from Corowa's Rivalea abattoir, resulting in accusations of animal cruelty and an on-site investigation.

#26. Wednesday 7 May 2014 by Richard Noone (The Daily Telegraph)

A PIGGERY at the centre of animal cruelty allegations has sacked two staff as police review hidden camera footage showing one of the men kicking a disabled pig.

#27. Tuesday 6 May 2014 by Sarah Dean (The Border Mail)

POLICE were yesterday reviewing footage of a pig being excessively prodded and kicked by an employee at Corowa’s Rivalea abattoir.

#28. Friday 2 May 2014 by Richard Noone (The Daily Telegraph)

AUSTRALIA'S largest pork producer Rivalea has launched an investigation into animal cruelty after shocking footage emerged of a pig being excessively prodded and kicked.

#29. Wednesday 25 Sep 2013 by Colin Bettles (Farm Online)

AUSTRALIAN Pork Limited (APL) has taken action against a website run by Animal Liberation which claims to expose the "inside story" on intensive livestock management practices.