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Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one
It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.
- Antone Martinho-Truswell
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Animal abuse allegations surface at petting zoo that employed paedophile
A disturbing video shows at least five dead or dying chickens in the boot of a City Chicks vehicle, with registration matching the owner’s car.
- Dan Nolan and Georgia Done
Tony Jones on the demise of Q+A and walking the red carpet at Sundance
Should we take drugs that have been tested on animals in appalling conditions? The veteran journalist has directed a groundbreaking documentary on the topic.
- Peter FitzSimons
WA racetrack closed pending investigation after greyhound injuries
A West Australian racetrack has been closed pending an internal investigation after two greyhounds were euthanised and several more were injured during a meet on Wednesday.
- Holly Thompson
‘People don’t want to think about it’: Pet animal shelters near crisis point
Pregnant and homeless at Christmas, a Staffordshire bull terrier named Peridot has been given a new year’s lifeline. But rehoming pets in need is becoming increasingly difficult.
- Gemma Grant and Angus Delaney
Screen legend and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot dies aged 91
Brigitte Bardot, one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died.
Boiling live crabs, lobsters to be banned in UK animal rights crackdown
The move comes after laws in 2022 recognised that crabs, lobsters, crayfish and squid were sentient and could feel pain.
- Patrick Galbraith
Kitten’s journey to recovery after he was found in vat of glue
Titan the kitten is just one of hundreds of animals a Brisbane rescue has rehabilitated this year.
- Dominique Tassell
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- Greyhound racing
Secret plan to abandon $90 million greyhound track as death toll hits 21
Secret minutes reveal Racing Queensland considered fleeing its new $90 million facility for Albion Park as greyhound deaths and track failures mounted at The Q.
- Cameron Atfield
The premier, the poet and the fight to save a frog
It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.
- Andrew Stafford