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• Statement in Response to New Victorian Laws Targeting Animal Activists

  Wed 1 Dec 2021, 7:38pm

• Animal advocates mount landmark High Court challenge to Australia’s ag-gag laws

  Sat 11 Sep 2021, 3:13pm | View as a PDF

• Cruelty complaint lodged against Victorian turkey slaughterhouse

  Tue 23 Feb 2021, 12:46pm | View as a PDF

• “I bribed them all” – Hidden cameras capture damning confession, ongoing cruelty in Wally’s Piggery case

  Mon 16 Nov 2020, 7:00am | View as a PDF

• Activists issue challenge as Racing NSW backpedals on anti-slaughter rules

  Tue 23 Feb 2021, 12:47pm | View as a PDF

• Billionaire Gerry Harvey and two additional NSW knackeries implicated in ex-racehorse slaughter scandal

  Thu 29 Oct 2020, 10:17pm | View as a PDF

• Name change: Aussie Farms becomes Farm Transparency Project

  Sat 25 Jul 2020, 3:14pm

• Activists defy ‘ag-gag’ laws to release footage of ex-racehorses killed at Sydney knackeries

  Mon 29 Jun 2020, 11:41pm

• Statement on Vic Government Response to Animal Activism Inquiry

  Fri 5 Jun 2020, 11:04am

• ‘Disturbing’ covert footage shows baby goats screaming in pain as horn buds burnt off with hot iron

  Sun 15 Dec 2019, 11:45pm | View as a PDF

• 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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Hens burned alive

  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) | Hens burned alive

  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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Landmark High Court challenge to Australia's ag-gag laws

  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) | Dehorning and Corruption

  A NSW farmer who was the subject of an aborted RSPCA prosecution for animal cruelty at his former piggery is ...
• 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) | The Finish Line: Part 2

  Billionaire Gerry Harvey has apologised after one of his studs sent ex-racehorses to pet food factories for slaughter, a practise ...

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• Footage of NSW racehorse slaughter leaked

  Fri 30 October 2020Fri 30 October '20 by Angelo Risso (AAP) (Yahoo News)

  Ex-racehorses in NSW have been sent to knackeries for slaughter in potential contravention of the state's racing rules, footage released ...

• 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. ...

• 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 ...

• 'They will feel the full force of the law': Racing industry rocked by racehorse abuse allegations

  Fri 18 October 2019Fri 18 October '19 by Sarah Keoghan (Sydney Morning Herald)

  Racing Australia chief executive Barry O'Farrell has said prosecutions "should, and I suspect will occur" following ABC's 7.30 investigation into the ...

• Hundreds of racehorses sent to slaughterhouses in contravention of racing rules

  Thu 17 October 2019Thu 17 October '19 by Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Amy Donaldson (ABC News)

  Hundreds of registered racehorses are being discarded at slaughterhouses in Australia, in contravention of racing rules, rehoming policies and animal ...

• 'Horror movie': investigation underway after damning piggery footage leaked

  Fri 13 September 2019Fri 13 September '19 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 ...

• Footage shows baby goats shot on Vic farm

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by Christine McGinn (7 News)

  A Victorian farmer has called on the state government to stop protecting animal activists who have targeted him for a ...

• 'Treated like trash': Shocking video shows baby goats shot in the head on farm

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by Michael Dahlstrom (Yahoo News)

  This is the shocking moment baby goats are shot in the head in a mass cull and dumped into a ...

• Disturbing footage shows farmer shooting newborn goats in the head and dumping them in a bin

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by Oli Gross (Totally Vegan Buzz)

  Activists have revealed shocking footage in which a farmer heartlessly shoots newborn goats in the head one by one before ...

• Animal activists blast 'psychopath' for shooting newborn goats in the head and tossing them in a bin - but farmers say it's the most humane way to kill

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by Kelsey Wilkie (Daily Mail)

  Disturbing footage of a farmer shooting newborn goats in the head before violently tossing them in a bin has emerged ...

• Vegan activists seek protections

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by (The Australian)

  Animal activists have told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry that their ultimate aim is to end the farming of animals.

• BREAKING: Australian-first covert footage of baby goats being killed at high profile Victorian farm released

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by (Toorak Times)

  Confronting footage of baby goats being killed by the trailer-load using a captive bolt gun and then thrown into a ...

• Troubling farm footage of dying goats goes viral

  Wed 4 September 2019Wed 4 September '19 by (myGC)

  Footage has gone viral this week – and be warned, it’s not very pleasant – of baby goats being slaughtered on ...

• Undercover Video From Slaughterhouse Exposes Shocking Extent Of Animal Cruelty

  Fri 30 August 2019Fri 30 August '19 by Emma Rosemurgey (Unilad)

  Horrific undercover footage has emerged from a Sydney slaughterhouse, showing pigs and goats being forced into carbon dioxide gas chambers.

• Secret camera captures disturbing footage at Picton abattoir

  Thu 29 August 2019Thu 29 August '19 by Kayla Osborne (Wollondilly Advertiser)

  Animal rights activists and political parties are calling for the government to take action after 'damning' secret camera footage was ...