by Elena Wewer | Jun 9, 2022 | Community, Motions
The New South Wales Government yesterday (Wednesday, June 8) supported a crossbench motion in NSW Parliament that their response to the Northern Rivers floods was “insufficient”. The motion was put forward in the Legislative Council by Upper House MP for the...
by Elena Wewer | May 24, 2022 | Live export, Media Releases
The new federal Labor government must follow through on its pre-election promise of banning live export or risk losing the support of animal-loving voters, New South Wales Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party Mark Pearson has warned. Labor has...
by Elena Wewer | May 19, 2022 | Bills, Community, Dingoes
Despite being an ecological and cultural keystone species, the dingo is the only native mammal in NSW not protected under the Biodiversity Conservation Act. Every day, dingoes are shot and trapped by local councils and landholders. Even in national parks,...
by Elena Wewer | May 17, 2022 | Community
This river is a person. In March 2017, New Zealand’s Whanganui River became the world’s second natural resource to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. What an honour it was to visit the Whanganui...
by Elena Wewer | May 13, 2022 | Bills, Dingoes, Media Releases, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 13/05/2022 Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party Mark Pearson has introduced a controversial bill to New South Wales Parliament that would ban the killing of dingoes. If passed, the Dingo Cultural Heritage and Protection Bill 2022...
