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The inaugural Behind Closed Doors photography competition and fundraiser was organised by Farm Transparency Project in early 2023 with the aim of raising money for their work and providing a platform for professional and amateur photographers alike to share images and stories of animals.
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Pork giant Sunpork has removed a statement from its website claiming that it has eliminated sow stalls, after an investigation by Farm Transparency Project exposed ...
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A group of animal activists who stormed a Coles supermarket in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon to protest the manner pigs are farmed in the country ...
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Animal Justice Party candidate Chris Delforce joined vegan activists protesting the sale of pig products at the Coles supermarket on Spencer street on Saturday.
The ...
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Angry vegans storm the meat aisle of Coles blocking off customers from buying pork and declaring that all animal product should be ILLEGAL.
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The Farm Transparency Project leader has called for a complete ban on the sow stalls, saying the "suffering and violence" is "inherent to modern animal ...
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Animal activists have stormed a Coles in Melbourne’s CBD to protest in the meat aisle over the plight of caged pigs.
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Animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project is responsible for two anti-dairy billboards which have appeared this week in Brunswick and Albion
The billboards link to ...
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Animal activists have accused several Victorian piggeries of using sow stalls for extended periods, despite the pork industry pledging to voluntarily phase out the practice ...
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Media release by Andy Meddick MP (Animal Justice Party Victoria) - An undercover investigation by Farm Transparency Project has revealed at least six Victorian piggeries ...
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Pigs in Victoria are still being held in narrow pens that are not wide enough for the animals to turn around, despite an industry promise ...
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What do farm animals have to do with the Australian Constitution? Should the public know what happens in abattoirs and farms? Do we have the ...
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The High Court has upheld a law banning animal rights activists using hidden cameras to expose cruelty in farms and slaughterhouses, but left open the ...
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The court left questions unanswered in upholding the validity of NSW laws prohibiting trespassers from publishing footage of lawful activities on private properties.
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Animal rights activists say a High Court rejection of their challenge against surveillance laws in NSW prevents necessary exposure of the industry's animal cruelty.
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Animal rights activists have lost a landmark high court case against New South Wales laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision from farms and ...
Investigator Diary
What stays with me? The sad eyes of the breeding female pigs as they look up at yet another human; who won’t free them ...
Investigator Diary
You have arrived into this world; and I am witnessing the only experiences you will have. I am here to capture this moment, this is ...
Investigator Diary
I couldn’t tell you the last time I have been profoundly impacted, by watching footage of animals being killed. I have watched hours of ...
Investigator Diary
Inside a slaughterhouse, in the waiting pens. It was the first-time on a night out investigating that I have ever cried on. I walked around ...
Media release
Over February 10 and 11, the High Court will hear a constitutional challenge to a controversial NSW law that prohibits reporting on public interest matters, where the ...
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The Victorian Government has today announced the introduction of new legislation, the Livestock Management Amendment (Animal Activism) Bill 2021, to address what it calls "the serious ...
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Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have ...
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Thousands of chickens were burned alive after a huge fire broke out on Tuesday at an intensive egg farm in Victoria in Australia. Up to 45,000 ...
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The cause of fire which killed between 20,000 and 45,000 chickens at a poultry farm has been blamed by the owners on an electrical fault.
Editorial
How an industry has exploited false claims of species conservation for the sake of commerce.
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The money raised in just 23 days for a bid to change hidden camera laws includes a donation from a prominent Aussie philanthropist.
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Animal cruelty is something the majority of the population are aghast by. And it’s for this very reason that the authorities take draconian measures ...
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An Australian animal advocacy group is taking its campaign for greater transparency in animal-use industries from the streets to the High Court.
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Surveillance laws in NSW have been used to "hinder the exposure of systemic, commercialised animal cruelty," animal rights activists have said as they launch a ...
Media release
Animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project has served the Attorney-General of New South Wales with documents filed in the High Court of Australia, challenging the ...
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Exclusive: Animal rights activists say laws stopping them filming in slaughterhouses breach their right to freedom of political communication
Editorial
On April 1st 2021 we hosted an online event with 4 guest speakers who discussed issues surrounding animal rights and social justice. Here is a list of ...
Editorial
Check out these wonderful vegan, fairtrade and ethical chocolate brands.
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Stardust Circus have finally made the decision to quietly retire their captive lions and monkeys from performing.
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The exploitation and slaughter of animals in the fashion industry is often over-looked. Let's bust some myths about the fashion industry and what it does ...
Editorial
Marine animals in captivity lead lives of deprivation for years on end. It doesn't have to be this way - we have the power to ...
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On February 26th 2021, vegan burger company Everything Legendary managed to secure a massive $300,000 investment from Shark Tank's Mark Cubin, in return for 22% of their business.
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Here are 6 incredibly inspiring Black vegans changing the lives of animals that you just have to follow!
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It's a new year, and there are plenty of ways you can make it one that is kinder to animals.
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Turkeys are affectionate, playful and intelligent creatures, here are just some of the many reasons they deserve your consideration this Christmas.
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Turkeys value their lives just like humans and the companion animals we share our homes and lives with. There is an abundance of delicious plant-based ...
Editorial
The life of a turkey destine for slaughter is a grim Christmas story indeed. From breeding, to hatching, growing and slaughter, turkeys bred for their ...
Media release
Confronting hidden camera footage has revealed systemic improper stunning of turkeys before they are brutally decapitated in an abattoir in Numurkah, Victoria.
Editorial
Animals are capable of being the agents of their own resistance against human exploitation; but what happens after is up to us.
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Hidden cameras installed at the cattle feedlot operated by former pig farmer Wally Perenc, near Yass NSW, have shone new light on the animal cruelty ...
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A NSW farmer who was the subject of an aborted RSPCA prosecution for animal cruelty at his former piggery is now running a cattle farm ...
Editorial
How does the RSPCA's approved farming scheme stack up against the five freedoms, a framework even the RSPCA believes to be redundant in meeting the ...
Editorial
Regardless of stunning and slaughter methods, are you comfortable with your food and clothing being made from them?
Animals are sentient beings who can suffer ...
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When looking at the RSPCA approved farming standards, we can gain some insight into what these standards really mean for animals in RSPCA accredited farms.
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Editorial
Animals are being let down by the current institutions that are supposed to be in place to protect them. In order to begin moving towards ...
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By definition, veganism can and should benefit animals, but also humans and the planet. What does this mean for our activism? What does this mean ...
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Animal protection group Farm Transparency Project has hit back at claims made today by Racing NSW in response to new evidence of the ongoing slaughter ...
General news
Ex-racehorses in NSW have been sent to knackeries for slaughter in potential contravention of the state's racing rules, footage released by an animal protection group ...
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Billionaire Gerry Harvey has apologised after one of his studs sent ex-racehorses to pet food factories for slaughter, a practise banned in New South Wales, ...
Editorial
An investigation into two additional NSW knackeries revealed the ongoing slaughter of ex-racehorses despite the industry's assurances, with numerous breeders including billionaire Gerry Harvey implicated.
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Hours of footage obtained by animal activists revealed up to a dozen identified former racehorses or recently retired breeding mares were killed at one knackery ...
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New evidence reveals the ongoing slaughter of ex-racehorses in NSW in breach of the state’s racing rules, with many sent directly from industry breeders ...
Editorial
Social media has created an environment supportive of the sharing of disinformation. For the sake of other animals it is imperative that we get it ...
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No charges will be laid against the operators of a backyard slaughterhouse at Koo Wee Rup after the Agriculture Department closed its investigation into reports ...
Editorial
The animal industrial complex exerts significant influence over all of our lives. We need to understand how it operates, and search out ways to dismantle ...
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A backyard slaughterhouse operating on the outskirts of Melbourne has sparked fears of cruel practices and potential COVID-19 outbreak after undercover footage surfaced of sheep ...
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We're changing our name!
Since our inception in 2014, we've used the name Aussie Farms to challenge perceptions of what it means to farm animals for ...
Editorial
An industry funded by public monies is obligated to guarantee the lives of horses leaving the industry.
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Aussie Farms released secret camera footage from Burns Pet Food and Luddenham Pet Meats, despite that action being prohibited by NSW legislation.
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Animal protection organisation Aussie Farms has released ‘devastating’ hidden camera footage of horses, including ex-racing thoroughbreds and standardbreds, being shot at two Sydney knackeries.
Editorial
Beneath the glamour and gambling of the horse racing industry exists a dark underbelly of pain and suffering for the very creatures most patrons believe ...
Editorial
One of Australia's richest pastoralists has been charged seven times for clearing protected South Australian vegetation.
Editorial
It is believed to be one of the worst cases of animal neglect in Australia’s history, with a spokesperson stating, “for some of the ...
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A common misconception sees many of us believe that the wool industry is one that is harmless to sheep, completely different to the fur and ...
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The global Black Lives Matter uprisings have thrown ideological divisions within the animal rights movement into stark relief.
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A recurring revelation throughout this inquiry was the total lack of transparency and legal restrictions that the industry operates under, with even the poster boy ...
Editorial
Whilst non-human animals should remain at the forefront of the conversation, the ongoing Cedar Meats case highlights the inherently unsafe nature of slaughterhouses as workplaces.
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The way we celebrate motherhood is causing harm to humans, non-human animals and the environment.
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With a new CEO who views non-human animals as commodities, it has become apparent that RSPCA Tasmania has strayed far from its roots even as ...
Editorial
If all oppression is linked, it means that the fight for animal liberation is utterly intertwined with the dismantling of oppressive constructs and ideology as ...
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“Be sensible. Be calm. Be kind. Be safe.”
Amidst the tide of policy and workplace changes I am currently experiencing, this is the message currently ...
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Why were we there? And what has happened in the year since?
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As further social restriction measures are implemented across Tasmania in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, industries and individuals that rely on the exploitation and slaughter ...
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As (mostly white) western people have become aware of the likely origins of COVID-19, racism has been spewed over Asian communities worldwide. But claiming that ...
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Right now the world is dealing with an unprecedented pandemic effecting millions across the globe. In a time of such uncertainty and fear, it is ...
Editorial
The first time I ever walked into an operational slaughterhouse it was like a punch to the soul. The sight of so many beings lined ...
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Every day, consumers are becoming more aware of the cost of what they wear. Not the price tag, but the impact a garment has – on ...
Editorial
McCarthyism: a mid-20th century political attitude characterised chiefly by opposition to elements held to be subversive and by use of tactics involving personal attacks ...
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Hidden cameras have captured a farmer sawing off a baby goat's horns using a hot iron on a farm in Victoria.
In a video, supplied ...
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Confronting footage of a farmer appearing to sear the budding horns off of baby goats as they squeal has emerged.
The video was captured by ...
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Horrific hidden camera vision shows baby goats screaming in agony as their horn buds are burnt off with hot irons at a Victorian farm.
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Confronting Australian-first footage of baby goats screaming and struggling as their budding horns are burnt off with a hot iron has been released this morning ...
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It is extremely disappointing and concerning that the animal agriculture industry, whose business interests are at direct odds with our charitable purpose of "preventing or ...
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Makers of the controversial Aussie Farms map and Dominion documentary have laid down a public challenge to the government on its decision to bring in &...
General news
This is the disturbing moment a farmer killed male goat kids with a metal pole in front of their mothers because they cannot produce milk.
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Hidden camera footage taken at a Victorian farm shows newborn goats being bludgeoned with a metal pole and dying slow deaths while their mothers look ...
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Animal activists have released footage of male baby goats being bludgeoned to death at what's claimed to be a Victorian dairy farm.
"These newborns males ...
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Animal activists have released horrific footage of male baby goats being bludgeoned to death at what's claimed to be a Victorian dairy farm.
The confronting ...
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Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV) has released horrific undercover footage obtained at a Victorian Goat Farm which shows newborn goats being legally bludgeoned to death in ...
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The public recoils, although sheep and cows are killed in identical fashion. But the racing industry has a serious case to answer too.
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Racing Australia chief executive Barry O'Farrell says he was shocked by footage of retired racehorses being slaughtered.
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The former racehorses killed in appalling conditions in an abattoir north of Brisbane appear to have fallen through the jurisdictional cracks, with multiple agencies claiming ...
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A Queensland abattoir at the centre of the horse slaughter scandal is now the target of an investigation after an ABC 7:30 report showed confronting footage ...
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The ABC has revealed many registered racehorses have been sent to slaughter in NSW after retirement even though it is against the rules of racing ...
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Racing Australia chief executive Barry O'Farrell has said prosecutions "should, and I suspect will occur" following ABC's 7.30 investigation into the treatment of racehorses.
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Hundreds of registered racehorses are being discarded at slaughterhouses in Australia, in contravention of racing rules, rehoming policies and animal welfare guarantees.
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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 ...
Media release
Animal protection organisation Aussie Farms has slammed the passing of new ‘ag-gag’ law The Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019 in yesterday’...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a second time. Animal protection organisation ...
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Confronting footage of baby goats being killed by the trailer-load using a captive bolt gun and then thrown into a bin has been released this ...
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This is the shocking moment baby goats are shot in the head in a mass cull and dumped into a bin just days after they ...
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Disturbing footage of a farmer shooting newborn goats in the head before violently tossing them in a bin has emerged online.
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Animal activists have told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry that their ultimate aim is to end the farming of animals.
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Activists have revealed shocking footage in which a farmer heartlessly shoots newborn goats in the head one by one before tossing them in a bin.
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Confronting footage of baby goats being killed by the trailer-load using a captive bolt gun and then thrown into a bin has been released this ...
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Footage has gone viral this week – and be warned, it’s not very pleasant – of baby goats being slaughtered on a farm.
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Horrific undercover footage has emerged from a Sydney slaughterhouse, showing pigs and goats being forced into carbon dioxide gas chambers.
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Animal rights organisations Aussie Farms and Animals Within have released new footage captured by a hidden body-worn camera at the Picton Meatworx (formerly Wollondilly Abattoir), ...
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Animal rights activists and political parties are calling for the government to take action after 'damning' secret camera footage was captured at a Picton abattoir.
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Vision has emerged from inside a New South Wales abattoir, claiming to expose acts of animal cruelty.
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Footage shows pigs and goats being put inside carbon dioxide gas chambers. It also appears to show workers twist cows' tails to force them to ...
Media release
Following my appearance before the Committee on Monday 12 August, I wish to make the following points to supplement the evidence I provided.
Regarding the occurrence ...
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Aussie Farms' submission to the Victorian parliamentary inquiry around the establishment of new laws to target animal rights activism.
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Aussie Farms' submission to the federal parliamentary inquiry around the establishment of new laws to target animal rights activism.
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Agriculture Victoria is investigating an alleged illegal abattoir operating on the outskirts of Melbourne, after receiving graphic video of sheep being slaughtered without being stunned.
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Victorian authorities are probing allegations of illegal livestock slaughter in South Gippsland.
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An alleged illegal abattoir is being investigated following claims of sheep being slaughtered inhumanely.
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Distressing footage of sheep being slaughtered in a Victorian shed has sparked investigations into claims of animal cruelty.
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An alleged illegal slaughterhouse operating in Kooweerup has been discovered, with footage emerging of reported animal cruelty.
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The NSW Government has today announced proposed amendments to the Biosecurity Act (2015), introducing on-the-spot fines of up to $220,000 for individuals, or $400,000 for organisations, who trespass ...
General news
It was a South Australian town's biggest employer before a huge fire gutted it. Now, 18 months on, a new abattoir will be built promising up ...
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Vegan vigilantes broke into an abattoir and stole nearly 20 ducklings set for the slaughter.
The rogue activists carried inflatable pools to Luv-A-Duck abattoir in Nhill, ...
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ANIMAL activists have staged high-profile protests against both the duck and pig industries in the past week.
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NHILL Police are continuing investigations into a protest at Nhill's Luv-a-Duck processing plant on Thursday.
About 55 activists from six states representing Bear Witness Australia and ...
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A group of around 50 activists have protested at Luv-A-Duck's factory in Nhill this morning, Thursday November 29.
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A stand-off at a South Australian abattoir has ended and 23 protesters reported, as the RSPCA confirmed the business is the subject of an investigation.
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A GROUP of animal welfare activists who forced a Strathalbyn abattoir into shutdown by climbing on to its roof have ended their peaceful protest.
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ANIMAL activists have stormed a Strathalbyn abattoir, spending several hours on the roof of the building protesting the treatment of livestock processed at the facility.
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An all-day protest has ended with the transaction of a single sheep surrendered to animal rights activists who sat on the roof of a South ...
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More than 20 animal rights activists remain in a stand-off with police more than twelve hours after they climbed onto the roof of an abattoir south ...
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Two young slaughterhouse workers were captured playing swing ball with a decapitated pigs head attached to a chain, after watching it writhe in agony as ...
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HORRIFIC video filmed inside a South Australian slaughterhouse has revealed evidÂence of animal cruelty, including pigs drowning in scalding water and sheep being slammed ...
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Horrific footage from inside an abattoir shows the brutal and bloody measures workers use to kill the animals.
The shocking video footage filmed at Strath ...
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Shocking footage of duck farming in Australia has emerged showing day-old ducklings being dropped into an industrial shredder, adult ducks being kicked and thrown around ...
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THE owners of South Australia’s biggest abattoir in Murray Bridge have vowed to be back bigger and better after a huge fire ripped through ...
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A Melbourne abattoir has been allowed to continue operating despite being investigated for possible animal cruelty, after secretly recorded footage showed it boiling chickens alive ...
General news
Documents granted under the NSW GIPA ACT reveal disturbing information about the 2015 fires that killed approximately 250 pigs at the Boen Boe Piggery in Joadja and 2,500 ...
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Animal rights groups are furious a cruelty investigation into two Tasmanian abattoirs is still ongoing, eight months after it was launched.
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The boss of an award-winning Tasmanian abattoir has admitted calves were ill-treated at his Cressy site.
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Disturbing footage of calves being tossed and struck at a Tasmanian abattoir has been released by animal rights activists, who say authorities have failed to ...
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Abattoir workers could be charged with animal cruelty after disturbing footage emerged of calves being beaten before they were slaughtered.
Video shot at Tasmanian Quality ...
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One of Victoria's oldest abattoirs is under investigation after workers were secretly filmed mistreating animals for the second time in three years.
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Riverside Meats has been sanctioned and directed to remove four staff members from their roles following allegations of animal mistreatment.
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A VICTORIAN abattoir has been slammed by the State Government over allegations it mistreated animals.
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One of Victoria's oldest abattoirs has been sanctioned and four staff moved after a secret video revealed the mistreatment of animals, including pigs and newborn ...
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One of Victoria's oldest abattoirs, Riverside Meats Abattoir, has been sanctioned and four staff sacked over poor animal welfare, after secret video revealed mistreatment of ...
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Animals at an Echuca slaughterhouse have been tortured in shocking videos that Victoria's chief vet says are the worst he's seen in his career.
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THE owner of a Derwent Valley abattoir depicted in leaked video has rejected RSPCA calls for the facility to close, and confirmed a planned slaughter ...
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RSPCA Australia has been provided with access to a series of excerpts from footage taken in September 2016 at the Gretna Meatworks in Tasmania. The footage ...
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Tasmanian authorities are investigating allegations of severe animal cruelty at an abattoir in the Derwent valley, north of Hobart.
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The cruelty of factory farming has once more been exposed with disturbing footage revealing the horrific conditions in which rabbits are kept.
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It is a small industry doing great harm, it appears, to rabbits raised in cages for their meat.
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Kicked. Beaten. Ridden on while being artificially inseminated.
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Footage of alleged animal abuse at a SA piggery has been released by Animal Liberation which says an RSPCA investigation is underway.
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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 ...
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Animal rights activists have recorded shocking abuse and conditions on video and more than 800 photos inside a piggery north of Adelaide.
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Animal activists have secretly filmed scenes at a South Australian piggery where workers beat, kick and ride sows as they artificially inseminate them.
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The company behind the latest controversial Australia Day advertisement "Operation Boomerang", encouraging Australians to eat lamb, has threatened legal action if a video posted online ...
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An animal rights organisation has defended using a clip from Meat & Livestock Australia’s controversial Australia Day lamb advertisement in its own video, which shows ...
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Meat & Livestock Australia has demanded an animal rights organisation take down a parody video using footage from its latest Australia Day campaign and the ad’...
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Meat and Livestock Australia has threatened to sue an animal rights organisation if it does not take down a graphic parody video that splices footage ...
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Meat and Livestock Australia have issued an immediate take down notice to an animal rights group that have used footage from their 'Operation Boomerang' campaign ...
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After days of robust campaigning against Meat and Livestock Australia's Australia Day advertisement, animal activists say they are being threatened with legal action.
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Young-based piggery firm Blantyre Farms is proposing to build a $12 million piggery development near Harden but some Harden folk aren’t too happy about it.
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A concerned community group has been established in response to the recently announced Development Application (DA), lodged by Michael and Edwina Beveridge of Blantyre Farms ...
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Big regional New South Wales piggery, Blantyre Farms, is proposing to build a new $12m operation.
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Animal rights activists chained themselves to a Victorian pig slaughterhouse 'gas chamber' on Monday morning to protest against carbon dioxide stunning in the pork industry.
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THEY are pictured thrashing about, desperately trying to escape and their death is slow and excruciating.
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Confronting footage of pigs apparently being forced into 'gas chambers' as they scream and try to escape before they are gutted and drained of blood ...
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A two-year undercover investigation by animal activists reveals shocking footage on the widespread practice of killing pigs by carbon dioxide.
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Pigs suffer distress and struggle to breath and escape when gassed with carbon dioxide at abattoirs, RSPCA Australia says.
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"From their first lungful of gas, these pigs are burning from the inside out," Animal Liberation Victoria says of carbon dioxide stunning technique.
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Residents have told of the horror of the major bushfire burning in South Australia, with one revealing he had no choice but to leave thousands ...
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About 2500 pigs have been killed after a fire broke out in a shed in south-western NSW on Wednesday.
The fire, believed to have been started ...
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About 2,000 pigs have been killed in a fire at a piggery in central New South Wales.
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An estimated 2500 weaners have been killed in a shed fire at Wonga piggery on Wednesday morning.
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Staff at the Wonga Piggery near Young will be offered counselling after more than 2000 pigs were killed in a shed fire this morning.
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Hundreds of pigs have been killed in a fire at the Boen Boe piggery at Joadja in the Southern Highlands.
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Up to 200 pigs are thought to have been killed in a fire on a stud in the New South Wales southern highlands.
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Former chartered accountant turned pig farmer Edwina Beveridge is making her mark as a pioneer in the industry, turning methane into money as Australia's first ...
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Staff at a local piggery have been blindsided by the sudden death of 500 pigs from extreme heat stress.
An anonymous whistleblower yesterday revealed employees at ...
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LUCENT is an award-winning documentary screening in March in both Toowoomba and Dalby. Narrated by Lindsay McDougall (The Doctor from Triple J), this documentary explores ...
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An animal rights group claims it has uncovered footage of cruelty to sheep at an abattoir in Wangaratta in Victoria, but has no plans to ...
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Animal rights activists have targeted the successful Australia Day lamb promotion through video footage allegedly taken at Victorian abattoirs about nine months ago.
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The RSPCA and the NSW Government must publicly explain why charges were dropped against the owner of a southern NSW piggery, despite overwhelming evidence of ...
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RHETORICAL warfare has broken out between key players in the high profile case against Wally's Piggery, after cruelty charges were dropped in the Yass Local ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Animal Liberation NSW has refused to take the blame for the RSPCA's decision to drop its case against Wally's Piggery.
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ANIMAL cruelty charges in the high profile NSW case against Wally's Piggery have been dismissed, with prosecution hindered due to unlawfully obtained video footage.
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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 ...
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These days when it comes to how our food is produced, the question is no longer "how much do you know about where it comes ...
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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 ...
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Mindarra Piggery (WA’s largest) near Gingin, and Narrogin Piggery are the first in WA to be exposed for animal abuse on activist website www....
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This is the eye-opening footage animal activists claim is happening in pig farms across Australia.
The footage, allegedly shot across 50 farms and piggeries across the ...
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Beaten with metal rods, kept in cramped cages and gassed before being slaughtered: Undercover film reveals horrific conditions Australian pigs are forced to endure.
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A new feature-length documentary by animal rights group Aussie Farms, entitled “Lucentâ€, begins screening across Australia on October 17. The film contains footage from over 50 Australian ...
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Three generations of the Davis family, Aroora Enterprises, Murray Bridge, take part in the Royal Adelaide Show each year.
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A new film by Aussie farms provides a comprehensive exposé of the Australian pig farming industry. Chris Delforce, writer and producer of Lucent, tells Alison ...
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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.
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The animal rights activist behind the Aussie Farms website says his work stemmed from his initial involvement publishing video footage two years ago after an ...
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If animal rights activist Chris Delforce had his own way with lawmakers, Australia’s $1 billion per year pork industry would be terminated overnight.
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Two months after world-first footage emerged from the gas chambers at Corowa pig abattoir in NSW, animal activists have now released even more damning footage ...
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Varying political forces have weighed into the debate over proposed new laws aimed at curtailing illegal trespass activity on farms by animal rights activists.
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As part of the pork industry's self-declared "Bacon Week", animal advocacy organisation Aussie Farms has so far exposed cruelty at a further 4 piggeries, two of ...
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Concluding their tribute to “Bacon Weekâ€, animal advocacy organisation Aussie Farms have released material from yet another Australian pig farm.
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Animal rights campaigner Chris Delforce this week pledged his group would run a counter-campaign against Australian Pork Limited’s (APL) "bacon week" promotion.
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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 ...
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In response to the pork industry’s self-declared “bacon weekâ€, activist group Aussie Farms has announced that they will be exposing cruelty at one additional ...
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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.
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Harsher penalties may deter animal activists from breaking into farming properties, but it’s more important to focus on ensuring animal cruelty doesn’t occur ...
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In response to calls from pig farmers for ‘ag-gag’ style laws, animal activists have released footage and photographs depicting extreme cruelty at an 18th Australian ...
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In response to defamatory and unfounded comments made by Australian Pork Limited (APL)’s CEO Andrew Spencer on the ABC Landline program yesterday, animal activists ...
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Animal activists have released footage inside a further two Queensland piggeries, revealing thousands of pregnant and lactating pigs confined to tiny metal and concrete cages.
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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 ...
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Disturbing footage has emerged, reportedly from Corowa's Rivalea abattoir, resulting in accusations of animal cruelty and an on-site investigation.
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POLICE were yesterday reviewing footage of a pig being excessively prodded and kicked by an employee at Corowa’s Rivalea abattoir.
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Activists plant hidden cameras over gas chambers in the Corowa NSW slaughterhouse, capturing world-first footage as the pigs suffocate in apparent ‘humane’ conditions.
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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.
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Despite her piggery being exposed for ongoing animal abuse, intensive piggery operator Edwina Beveridge has been nominated for a Rural Women's Award.
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Windridge Farms’ Wonga Piggery, owned by the parents of Edwina Beveridge, is the twelfth Australian piggery to be exposed for animal cruelty by Animal Liberation; ...
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After much anticipation, graphic vision is released from Edwina Beveridge’s Blantyre Farms.
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Pig found with severe, maggot-infested prolapses.
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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 ...
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Aroora Enterprises won supreme pig of the Royal Adelaide Show with a Large White boar.
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Earlier this week Australian Pork Limited filed a complaint against Animal Liberation’s “Australian Pig Farming: The Inside Story†website to try to get it ...
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Continuing their campaign to bring to light the cruelty inherent in the Australian pig farming industry, Animal Liberation ACT has released photos and footage from ...
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In response to a misleading promotional video of Lansdowne Piggery, NSW, recently published by Australian Pork Limited (APL), Animal Liberation ACT has released damning footage ...
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This week the campaign by Animal Liberation ACT and NSW to expose the realities of Australian pig farming achieved another victory when the closure of ...
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A SYDNEY abattoir has been hit with a $60,000 fine for treating animals in a sickening and grossly inhumane manner.
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A Laverton knackery recently under investigation for animal cruelty by the RSPCA claimed last week it had been slaughtering horses for the RSPCA for the ...
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New South Wales Police have been asked to investigate more than 100 acts of animal cruelty at an Inghams turkey abattoir south-west of Sydney, which animals ...
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An animal rights group is calling for mandatory CCTV monitoring at all Australian abattoirs after distressing footage emerged of turkeys being bashed, kicked and stomped ...
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A knackery accused of the brutal treatment and inhumane slaughter of former racehorses will escape prosecution after the RSPCA decided covert footage was not sufficient ...
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Animals Australia say a formal warning issued to an Echuca abattoir found to be mistreating dairy calves is not enough.
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Video obtained by Lateline from the lobby group Animals Australia appears to show cruel treatment of unwanted dairy claves being sent for slaughter.
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The Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors in western Sydney and one of its former employees have been charged with animal cruelty following heinous footage revealed recently.
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A WORKER at a Laverton knackery accused of inhumane treatment of animals says the horses are either ‘‘unwanted or dangerous’’ and are being ‘‘killed the ...
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Allegations of inhumane slaughter of horses at a western suburbs knackery have sparked outrage and prompted the Melbourne and Werribee Open Range zoos to source ...
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A few days ago, activists returned to Wally's Piggery. For the moment, the farrowing sheds are empty - there are no sows or piglets on ...
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The Meat Industry Authority, that had its functions transferred to the NSW Food Authority, paid attention to Wally's Pig Farm [in around 1984]. An inspector attended ...
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This week more undercover footage was obtained from two abusers in NSW: Allain's piggery in Blakney Creek NSW, just an hour north of Wally's, and ...
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During the investigation yesterday by the police, the RSPCA, the Animal Welfare League and the Food Authority, Wally admitted that he had been sent the ...
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Website for the 'Australian Pig Farming: Inside Story' campaign was launched, after footage and photographs were obtained from within Wally's Piggery NSW.
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Shocking evidence of brutal animal abuse and horrific slaughter exposes pig industry's hidden crimes.
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Animal welfare breaches have been uncovered in all 10 of the state's red meat abattoirs, a government review has found.
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Colin Giles is adamant he has done nothing wrong. Nor does the 71-year-old Gippsland abattoir owner think he is cruel or inhumane. But that is ...
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The suspension on Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors' licence has been lifted by the NSW Food Authority, allowing it to recommence operations at its facility in ...
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A northern Sydney abattoir has been forced to close after footage emerged showing animals being beaten before their slaughter.
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ALL abattoirs in NSW will have their operations reviewed by the state government after a video revealed shocking animal cruelty at a western Sydney slaughterhouse.
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A Sydney abattoir has stopped slaughtering and faces closure and prosecution after hidden-camera footage of chilling animal cruelty emerged.
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The Hawkesbury abattoir shut down following the release of shocking animal cruelty footage had been checked by the government regulator four times last year but ...
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An abattoir in Gippsland has been shut down after allegations of cruelty to pigs was upheld by the state's slaughterhouse regulator.
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A Gippsland abattoir has been shut by state authorities following a shocking video of alleged animal cruelty.
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As the pig industry prepares to commemorate the centenary of stud breeding in Australia, pig producers are still smiling, thanks to handy prices over the ...
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Murray Bridge producer Greg Davis, south-east of Adelaide, SA, had to tighten his belt to get through the industry's tough time, when low prices and ...
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PIG farmers able to stick out the tough times of the past two years are now reaping price rises of 50 per cent.
Vegan protesters spark debate over 'disturbing' act at Coles: 'Leave kids out of it'
Tue 8 November 2022Tue 8 November '22 by Wendy Crouch (Yahoo News) | Sow stalls
A group of animal activists who stormed a Coles supermarket in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon to protest the manner pigs ...
Vegan protesters storm Coles meat aisle blocking off customers from buying pork: Sow stalls
Sun 6 November 2022Sun 6 November '22 by By Levi Parsons For Daily Mail Australia (Daily Mail) | Sow stalls
Angry vegans storm the meat aisle of Coles blocking off customers from buying pork and declaring that all animal product ...
Angry vegans storm supermarket to STOP customers from buying any pork products
Sun 6 November 2022Sun 6 November '22 by Milica Cosic (Mirror) | Sow stalls
The Farm Transparency Project leader has called for a complete ban on the sow stalls, saying the "suffering and violence" ...
Vegan activists plot secret Melbourne protest to highlight plight of caged pigs
Sun 6 November 2022Sun 6 November '22 by Mitch Clarke (Herald Sun) | Sow stalls
Animal activists have stormed a Coles in Melbourne’s CBD to protest in the meat aisle over the plight of ...
Illegal investigation by animal rights activists uncovers pigs in sow stalls across Victoria
Wed 21 September 2022Wed 21 September '22 by Jane McNaughton (ABC News) | Sow stalls
Animal activists have accused several Victorian piggeries of using sow stalls for extended periods, despite the pork industry pledging to ...
Pigs still held in narrow pens industry promised to ban, Victorian Animal Justice party claims | Animal welfare | The Guardian
Wed 21 September 2022Wed 21 September '22 by Calla Wahlquist (The Guardian) | Sow stalls
Pigs in Victoria are still being held in narrow pens that are not wide enough for the animals to turn ...
What the High Court decision on filming animals in farms and abattoirs really means
Thu 25 August 2022Thu 25 August '22 by Danielle Ireland-Piper (The Conversation) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws
What do farm animals have to do with the Australian Constitution? Should the public know what happens in abattoirs and ...
Hidden camera expose law upheld
Wed 10 August 2022Wed 10 August '22 by Stephen Rice (The Australian) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws
The High Court has upheld a law banning animal rights activists using hidden cameras to expose cruelty in farms and ...
Animal welfare activists lose High Court challenge over ‘hidden camera’ laws
Wed 10 August 2022Wed 10 August '22 by Michaela Whitbourn (The Sydney Morning Herald) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws
The court left questions unanswered in upholding the validity of NSW laws prohibiting trespassers from publishing footage of lawful activities ...
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High Court rejects NSW animal welfare case
Wed 10 August 2022Wed 10 August '22 by Greta Stonehouse (AAP)
Animal rights activists say a High Court rejection of their challenge against surveillance laws in NSW prevents necessary exposure of ...
Activists lose challenge to NSW laws banning secret filming of animal cruelty | Australia news | The Guardian
Wed 10 August 2022Wed 10 August '22 by Christopher Knaus (The Guardian)
Animal rights activists have lost a landmark high court case against New South Wales laws criminalising the use of secretly ...
NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty 'too great a burden on speech', high court hears
Fri 26 November 2021Fri 26 November '21 by Christopher Knaus (The Guardian)
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on ...
Thousands of chickens die in farm fire in Australia
Tue 16 November 2021Tue 16 November '21 by (The Animal Reader)
Thousands of chickens were burned alive after a huge fire broke out on Tuesday at an intensive egg farm in ...
Questions remain over Carisbrook chicken farm fire | The Courier | Ballarat, VIC
Fri 12 November 2021Fri 12 November '21 by (The Courier)
The cause of fire which killed between 20,000 and 45,000 chickens at a poultry farm has been blamed by the owners on ...
Farm Transparency Project raise $175k for High Court case
Mon 26 July 2021Mon 26 July '21 by Chantelle Francis (The Weekly Times)
The money raised in just 23 days for a bid to change hidden camera laws includes a donation from a prominent ...
High Court Challenge to NSW Ag-Gag Laws: An Interview With Farm Transparency Project’s Chris Delforce
Fri 16 July 2021Fri 16 July '21 by Paul Gregoire (Sydney Criminal Lawyers)
Animal cruelty is something the majority of the population are aghast by. And it’s for this very reason that ...
Should slaughterhouses have glass walls? The campaign for greater farm transparency goes to the High Court
Thu 8 July 2021Thu 8 July '21 by Serrin Rutledge-Prior and Tara Ward (The Conversation)
An Australian animal advocacy group is taking its campaign for greater transparency in animal-use industries from the streets to the ...
Animal cruelty focus of NSW High Court bid
Tue 29 June 2021Tue 29 June '21 by Greta Stonehouse (The Canberra Times)
Surveillance laws in NSW have been used to "hinder the exposure of systemic, commercialised animal cruelty," animal rights activists have ...
High court to hear bid to overturn New South Wales ‘ag-gag’ laws
Tue 29 June 2021Tue 29 June '21 by Christopher Knaus (The Guardian)
Exclusive: Animal rights activists say laws stopping them filming in slaughterhouses breach their right to freedom of political communication
Political stink over 'suffering' cattle at NSW farm
Sun 15 November 2020Sun 15 November '20 by Caitlin Fitzsimmons (The Sydney Morning Herald)
A NSW farmer who was the subject of an aborted RSPCA prosecution for animal cruelty at his former piggery is ...
Footage of NSW racehorse slaughter leaked
Fri 30 October 2020Fri 30 October '20 by Angelo Risso (AAP) (Canberra Times)
Ex-racehorses in NSW have been sent to knackeries for slaughter in potential contravention of the state's racing rules, footage released ...
NSW stud owned by Gerry Harvey among those accused in parliament of sending racehorses to slaughter
Thu 29 October 2020Thu 29 October '20 by Christopher Knaus and Calla Wahlquist (The Guardian)
Billionaire Gerry Harvey has apologised after one of his studs sent ex-racehorses to pet food factories for slaughter, a practise ...
Racing NSW launches investigation after race horses continue to be slaughtered
Thu 29 October 2020Thu 29 October '20 by Rob Harris, Latika Bourke (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Hours of footage obtained by animal activists revealed up to a dozen identified former racehorses or recently retired breeding mares ...
No charges over backyard slaughterhouse in Koo Wee Rup
Sun 27 September 2020Sun 27 September '20 by Erin Pearson (The Sydney Morning Herald)
No charges will be laid against the operators of a backyard slaughterhouse at Koo Wee Rup after the Agriculture Department ...
Cruelty, biohazard concerns raised over backyard slaughterhouse
Sun 9 August 2020Sun 9 August '20 by Erin Pearson (The Age)
A backyard slaughterhouse operating on the outskirts of Melbourne has sparked fears of cruel practices and potential COVID-19 outbreak after ...
Animal rights group prepared to risk jail over secret camera footage
Wed 1 July 2020Wed 1 July '20 by Matt Bungard (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Aussie Farms released secret camera footage from Burns Pet Food and Luddenham Pet Meats, despite that action being prohibited by ...
Farmer from Victoria filmed burning baby goat's horns off with hot iron
Tue 17 December 2019Tue 17 December '19 by Brittany Chain (Daily Mail Australia)
Hidden cameras have captured a farmer sawing off a baby goat's horns using a hot iron on a farm in ...
Victorian farm condemned after 'disturbing' footage of baby goats having horns burnt off emerges
Mon 16 December 2019Mon 16 December '19 by Alex Chapman (7 News)
Confronting footage of a farmer appearing to sear the budding horns off of baby goats as they squeal has emerged.
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Graphic hidden camera footage shows baby goats having their horn buds burnt off with hot irons
Mon 16 December 2019Mon 16 December '19 by Shannon Molloy (News.com.au)
Horrific hidden camera vision shows baby goats screaming in agony as their horn buds are burnt off with hot irons ...
Disturbing moment dairy farmer beats baby goats to death with a metal pole - before dragging their convulsing bodies away in front of their mothers
Fri 25 October 2019Fri 25 October '19 by Charlie Moore (Daily Mail Australia)
This is the disturbing moment a farmer killed male goat kids with a metal pole in front of their mothers ...
Horrific video of baby animal slaughter implicates Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr
Fri 25 October 2019Fri 25 October '19 by Shannon Molloy (News.com.au)
Hidden camera footage taken at a Victorian farm shows newborn goats being bludgeoned with a metal pole and dying slow ...
Baby goats clubbed to death: Vic activists
Fri 25 October 2019Fri 25 October '19 by AAP (9 News)
Animal activists have released footage of male baby goats being bludgeoned to death at what's claimed to be a Victorian ...
Baby goats bludgeoned to death in horrific undercover footage on Victorian dairy farm
Fri 25 October 2019Fri 25 October '19 by AAP (7 News)
Animal activists have released horrific footage of male baby goats being bludgeoned to death at what's claimed to be a ...
World first footage of baby goats bludgeoned to death in front of mothers
Fri 25 October 2019Fri 25 October '19 by Animal Liberation Victoria (MediaNet)
Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV) has released horrific undercover footage obtained at a Victorian Goat Farm which shows newborn goats being ...
Horse slaughter: irresponsibility and hypocrisy on all sides have brought us here
Sat 19 October 2019Sat 19 October '19 by Calla Wahlquist (The Guardian)
The public recoils, although sheep and cows are killed in identical fashion. But the racing industry has a serious case ...
Biosecurity officers to investigate alleged cruelty to horses at Queensland abbatoir
Fri 18 October 2019Fri 18 October '19 by (SBS News)
Racing Australia chief executive Barry O'Farrell says he was shocked by footage of retired racehorses being slaughtered.
Queensland government blames horse owners for abattoir cruelty scandal
Fri 18 October 2019Fri 18 October '19 by Stuart Layt (Brisbane Times)
The former racehorses killed in appalling conditions in an abattoir north of Brisbane appear to have fallen through the jurisdictional ...
Abattoir At Centre Of Horse Slaughter Scandal Subject To Investigation
Fri 18 October 2019Fri 18 October '19 by Antoinette Lattouf (10 Daily)
A Queensland abattoir at the centre of the horse slaughter scandal is now the target of an investigation after an ...
Hundreds of ex-racing horses 'slaughtered in three weeks'
Fri 18 October 2019Fri 18 October '19 by John Ellicott (The Land)
The ABC has revealed many registered racehorses have been sent to slaughter in NSW after retirement even though it is ...
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