Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 11/12/2012 Reporter: Conor Duffy Video of Australian cattle being abused at an Israeli abattoir has prompted questions of our live export system given the abattoir was given the all clear in an audit for an Australian exporter two months before the video was taken. Transcript CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Shocking new video [...]
Read moreThe AJP will be standing candidates at the next Federal Election, likely to be held around October 2013. It is time Australian citizens had the opportunity to vote for significant improvement in the lives of all animals. For too long rationalist political parties in our parliaments have ignored the animal cruelty that has become an [...]
Read moreOne of the world’s biggest fishing trawlers – dragging a monster net that kills dolphins, seals and sea birds while gathering its target species – is on its way to Australia to trawl for some of the most critical species in our fragile marine ecosystem. The FV Margiris super trawler is twice of size of [...]
Read moreFormer High Court judge Michael Kirby is arguing for a rethink of laws governing animal protection and live exports, pointing to research showing closer genetic links between humans and other animals. Transcript TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Well as we heard earlier in the program Tony Abbott has decried last year’s temporary suspension of live cattle exports [...]
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