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Media Release
3 November 2008 What they DON'T tell you about the Melbourne Cup
With tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup, the important thing to most race goers is the frocks, the champagne and the flutter – but the real cost of stopping a Nation for this day is a shocking litany of suffering, pain and death for race horses.
20 December 2007 - RSPCA - pet shop impulse buys
December 20 2007
The ACT RSCPA has issued this media release in relation to the first impulse buy from a Canberra pet shop. Only two days after being bought on impulse from a Canberra pet shop, a "spoodle" (Spaniel cross Miniature Poodle) puppy was surrendered to the RSPCA for rehoming.
See attached PDF.
DEFENCE BREACH OF COMMONWEALTH LAW KILLS 1000 KANGAROOS AT MAJURA
Animal Liberation ACT has learned that the Department of Defence was in breach of
Commonwealth law when it participated in the recent hearing in the ACT Civil and
Administrative Tribunal regarding the grant of its licence to kill kangaroos at the Majura
Training Area. Full Details in below attachment:
FEARS HELD FOR THE SAFETY OF THE REMAINING MAJURA KANGAROOS
Animal Liberation ACT and the Canberra Kangaroo Coalition continue to keep watch
over the surviving kangaroos at the Majura Training Area (MTA).
Last week the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal ordered the Department of
Defence to suspend any further killing of kangaroos at the Majura site whilst the
decision to grant the killing licence is reviewed.
Massive Slaughter of kangaroos plannned for the ACT
Animal Liberation ACT is disappointed to learn of proposals to slaughter more kangaroos in the ACT, -including at Majura. The ACT Government ‘Draft ACT Kangaroo Management Plan’, which is out for public comment, is a declaration of war on Canberra’s kangaroos. cont....
3 October 2008 Animal Liberation ACT urges residents to boycott circus
Lennon Bros Circus is in Queanbeyan for the school holidays. The irony is if they set up less than 2km away in the ACT, the owners would be liable to a year in jail and/or a hefty fine. This is because circuses with exotic animals have been banned in the ACT since 1992. Full details follow in attachment...
12 September 2008 - Animal torturers to face Queanbeyan Court, but there’s only half of them!
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 at 9am, Queanbeyan court will hear a case, including video evidence against two individuals charged with torturing to death two ferrets owned by their housemate. The disturbing incident was recorded on a camera phone.
23 July 2008 - Jamie Oliver's Fowl Dinners
Representatives from Animal Liberation ACT have viewed footage of tonight’s Jamie Oliver TV show in which Mr Oliver suffocates day old male chicks and kills another chicken by electrocution. Audience members are visibly upset by what they see with some being reduced to tears.
14 May 2008 Save the Belconnen Naval Transmission Station (BNTS) Kangaroos – Update
Representatives of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, along with Animal Liberation ACT invite media and the public to a ceremony at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to celebrate the spirit of community cooperation and goodwill for the Belconnen kangaroos. To be held at thr Tent Embassy Canberra Friday 16th May 2008 at 10.45am
14 April 2008 - Hidden cruelty secretly filmed in Victorian abattoir
PRESS RELEASE 14/4/08
17 March 2008 - Ngunnawal People deliver petition to save kangaroos
Petition to be delivered today to save Belconnen kangaroos
13 March 2008 - 'Stop the slaughter' Protest Action
Protest action starting Saturday 15th March 2008
4 March 2008 Animal Liberation NSW Dairy Investigation
Undercover Footage taken exposing the cruelty behind the dairy industry.
22 Febraury 2008 - South Australian Liberals amendments to protect animal cruelty, not animals.
National animal protection group Animals Australia has condemned amendments tabled by the Liberal Party to the government’s new animal welfare reforms.
30 January 2008 - Animal Liberation calls on the ACT Government to implement the 1997 Battery Cage Legislation
Mr Stanhope describes his government’s failure to support the Greens 2007 legislation to ban the battery cage in the ACT as “progress on non-battery eggs”, and admonishes Green MLA, Dr Foskey, not to expect change “overnight”. (Refer ACT GOV MEDIA RELEASE: PROGRESS ON NON-BATTERY EGGS, 026/08 24 January 2008).
