Animals Australia
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Australia’s leading animal protection organisation. Creating a kinder world — for all.
The fact that fish feel pain is well documented. Yet the magnitude of the uninvestigated and unaddressed suffering in Tasmania's salmon farming industry is almost unfathomable. This week we lodged a landmark legal complaint to try to change that. We see them, and we know you do too.
BREAKING: Animals Australia has lodged formal complaints with Biosecurity Tasmania calling for an immediate investigation into potential breaches of Tasmania’s Animal Welfare Act across the state’s salmon farming industry.
Animal cruelty claims lead to calls for salmon industry investigation
A request for an immediate investigation into salmon industry practices has been made to Biosecurity Tasmania regarding possible breaches to the state's Animal Welfare Act.
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She showed us all what it means to live with empathy, courage, and hope 🧡 Thank you, Gloria Steinem. The world is a kinder place because you were here. May you rest knowing that the change you fought for lives on in a global movement for social justice.
BREAKING NEWS: Forestry Corporation NSW has once again pushed back their plans for logging in Glenbog Forest, this time until February 2027. February will be upon us before we know it. We can’t afford to take the pressure off even for a moment — the animals are relying on us to end this for good.
This is not the news we had hoped to be bringing you. Change is rarely the work of a single moment — it's made by people willing to keep showing up. Thank you for showing up again and again for animals. ❤️🩹
Bred to be raced, confined, exported, injured and discarded when they're no longer 'profitable'. Born to be loved for the gentle, loyal, loving individuals they are. Greyhounds — like every dog — are companions, not commodities.
As this chapter closes across the Tasman, the message for Australia couldn't be clearer: we must be next. Join us in calling for an end to greyhound racing in Australia by sending a message to your local MP today: https://animalsaus.co/4hHknAs
‼️ BREAKING NEWS: Jacinta Allan has resigned and Victoria will soon have a new Premier. With a front running candidate who cares about wildlife, now is the time to speak up for ducks: https://animalsaus.co/4x6qpQw
“H5N1 may have arrived on the wings of a migratory seabird. But the scale of what comes next will depend entirely on choices made here at home.” — Louise Morris from @marineconservation.org.au thepoint.com.au/opinions/aus...
Australia's real black swan event is the lack of preparation for bird flu's arrival
A migratory brown skua found dead at Cape Le Grand National Park in Western Australia has now been confirmed as Australia's first mainland H5N1 case, making our continent the last to fall to a virus t...
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The H5 strain of bird flu has reached Australia. Governments are taking emergency action to stop its spread. Yet they still support recreational shooting of native birds — driving terrified animals from the habitats meant to protect them. You can't protect wildlife while supporting its slaughter.
Bird flu is now on the Australian mainland. Many will focus on eggs and industry impacts. We're thinking about the animals. Around the world, this strain has killed hundreds of millions of birds. And it's intensive animal production systems that helped create the conditions for its spread.
On #BanLiveExports Awareness Day, we honour every animal still caught in this cruel trade. Until *every* live export ship is empty, our work is not done.
Today, more than 1M readers of The Age & Herald Sun newspapers will see our full-page open letter. Because native ducks are paying the price for a regulator that has failed them — and now the Allan Government wants to give that agency even more power. ACT: https://animalsaus.co/4eyezqX
This should not need saying. Native ducks and the people who rescue them deserve better than a government agency with one foot in 'regulation' and the other in promotion.
Victoria's duck shooting watchdog is run by duck shooters. Now the state govt wants to give it *more* power. Don't let it happen: https://animalsaus.co/4eyezqX
ACT NOW: Stop dangerous new hunting ‘superagency’
Wildlife rescuers could be jailed. Duck shooters could get more power.
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Disturbing footage from @geelongduckrescue.bsky.social: a shooter tries to kill a native duck by firing at point-blank range. With shattered bones she can't escape him and almost drowns as he tries — and fails — to kill her. Can you imagine her pain & fear? 💔 URGENT: Act now: animalsaus.co/4eyezqX
The ‘season’ for shooting on Victoria’s wetlands is now over for the year, but our fight for ducks is not. Decision-makers are moving. We need your voice to meet them. Please — take action today: https://animalsaus.co/4x6qpQw
Whistleblowers have reported that officers within Victoria's duck shooting regulator openly identify as duck shooters themselves. Fresh allegations of misconduct and bullying have now been confirmed by a damning ABC investigation. Read more & act urgently: animalsaus.co/4x6qpQw
Every duck shooting season, wildlife rescue volunteers wade into Victorian wetlands to save injured native birds left for dead by shooters. If the Outdoor Recreation Bill passes, they could face jail time for doing so. animalsaus.co/4x6qpQw
BREAKING: Fresh allegations of misconduct, bullying, and officers who openly identify as duck shooters have confirmed what a 2017 government review first found — Victoria's Game Management Authority is a fox in charge of the henhouse
'Us duck hunters': Victorian watchdog accused of siding with shooters
The Game Management Authority is accused of turning a blind eye to illegal behaviour by shooters while bullying wildlife rescuers and anti-hunting campaigners.
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Victoria's duck shooting 'regulator' promotes the very activity it's supposed to oversee. The Allan Govt wants to make it official — a hunting 'superagency' with even greater powers. An ABC exposé confirms it: conflicted and compromised. 🚨 ACT NOW to scrap this Bill: animalsaus.co/4x6qpQw
Glenbog State Forest in NSW is a wildlife refuge, but logging machinery is scheduled to destroy it all. Let decision makers know that this thriving forest is more valuable than cheap exports, and the wildlife currently living here should be protected: animalsaus.co/4t1CpQ9
Save wombats and other wildlife from being bulldozed alive
Thousands of native animals are about to be killed, injured or displaced all for the sake of cheap woodchips...
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You were never meant to see this. New and confronting evidence is circulating in the international media, revealing the hidden animal suffering behind regulatory toxicity testing for pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other products sold around the world. Learn more, and take action now: toxicity.inc
TOXICITY.inc—End Animal Toxicity Testing
Lab workers are sounding the alarm on animal toxicity testing. See the evidence. Act now.
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UPDATE: Debate on the Tasmanian government’s legislation to ban greyhound racing has been delayed. While we would have loved for this bill to protect greyhounds to be passed today, this vote is important and it is down to the wire. Tasmania, it's time to speak up: https://animalsaus.co/4d7RNWT
Published in The Point, our own CEO Glenys Oogjes writes about how nations around the world are walking away from greyhound racing, and how Australia may finally be next. Read the article in full here: https://animalsaus.co/41yWWQJ
We're not born with intentions to treat other animals like products, we’re taught to. As we grow older, we unconsciously copy those around us. We have all inherited so much of what we believe and how we live. Children see animals as friends, not food — a reminder of the compassion within us all.
BREAKING: Legislation to end greyhound racing has now officially been made law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Today marked the third and final reading of the bill in Parliament, which passed with overwhelming support 112 votes to 11. The ban will take effect from 1 August 2026.
Fish not only feel fear — they can sense when their friends are afraid too. Whether we have feet or fins, we all want the same basic things — safety, respect, freedom. 💙
