Factory farming
Duck farming: 9 ways duck farms are failing animals
The Humane Society of the United States, ‘An HSUS Report: The welfare of animals in the duck industry’
7 December 2021 | Article
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Companion animals
Understanding the issues: caged birds
Rather than acknowledging the obvious cruelty of keeping a living being destined to fly free in the sky confined in a cage, we have been conditioned to think that this practice is acceptable.
7 December 2021 | Article
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Farmed animals
Understanding the issues: farming for fur
Eighty-five percent of the fur industry’s skins come from animals raised in ‘battery’ cages2, where animals are deprived of any form of quality of life and the ability to perform their natural and instinctual behaviours. Mink live solitary lives and…
7 December 2021 | Article
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Compassionate living
Understanding the issues: introduced animals
It is so often forgotten that this group of much maligned animals has the same capacity to suffer as any other animal in Australia.
7 December 2021 | Article
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Farmed animals
Understanding the issues: painful procedures for cattle
Dehorning is one of the most traumatic experiences cattle are forced to endure. Both male and female calves usually undergo this surgical procedure without anything to dull the pain.
7 December 2021 | Article
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Shooting and hunting
Understanding the issues: kangaroo shooting
Each night in Australia, kangaroo families flee in terror as they’re chased down by hunters in utes. These iconic native animals are being slaughtered at an alarming rate to supply the lucrative meat and skin trade.
7 December 2021 | Article
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Compassionate living
How laws are failing animals: codes of cruelty
Have you ever wondered why hens can be packed into a single cage for their entire lives, when their suffering is so obvious? Or why mother pigs can be confined in cages so small they can't even turn around?
7 December 2021 | Article
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Farmed animals
The truth about leather
Do you know what — or more accurately, who — leather is made from, and how?
20 May 2026 | Article
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Wildlife
Flying foxes: understanding the issues
Unique, beautiful and vital to keeping our environment flourishing. But Australia's iconic flying foxes are at risk — and that means our native landscape is, too.
23 January 2026 | Article
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Wildlife
Kangaroo cruelty receives national attention on ABC’s 7.30
Government-sanctioned kangaroo killing has been largely hidden from the public eye – carried out as darkness falls across the outback. Until now.
6 December 2021 | Article
