Across Australia, fencing is used to mark the perimeter of properties and control the movement of animals, including wildlife. Simple wire fencing that marks property boundaries has typically allowed at least some, if not most, movement of wildlife between different...
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We’re pigs, not pork: inside the largest piggery in the southern hemisphere
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS If you eat pork, bacon or ham, this is a video you need to watch. To explore how pigs become pork in Australia, I recently visited Riverlea in Corowa, NSW - the largest piggery in the southern hemisphere. In Australia, 4.7 million pigs are...
This 1997 edition of Good Weekend raised concerns about the RSPCA and cruelty toward farmed animals. What has changed for the animals since?
This a photo of me holding an issue of Good Weekend that I have kept since December 1997, when it was published. The striking cover shows a gorgeous piglet, with the following written underneath: “ ‘What about me?’: It’s strong on cats and dogs, but has the RSPCA...
PULL THE PLUG on the Million Dollar Chase: An Open Letter to Hugh Marks, CEO of Nine
Mr Hugh Marks Chief Executive Officer and Director, Nine Dear Mr Marks, I write to you with an urgent plea: do not broadcast the Million Dollar Chase on October 16, 2020. Earlier this month, Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) announced the TAB Million...
Milk?
19th September 2019 MILK LABELLING https://youtu.be/4a1dptJ2l0E The Hon. MARK PEARSON (15:10): Milk by any other name. Until quite recently the nations united by the mother tongue of English experienced no difficulty in understanding the multiple usages of that...
Unity Principles
Together, NSW MPs Mark Pearson and Emma Hurst have developed a set of unity principles to guide their decision making within State Parliament. We believe in the in core principles of Kindness, Equality, Rationality and Non-violence. We believe it is our duty to take...
How we treat the many other species with whom we share this planet
18th June 2019 FOOD ANIMAL WELFARE https://youtu.be/ft6GEaICnCM The Hon. MARK PEARSON (18:40):I congratulate Ms Cate Faehrmann on her notice of motion last month acknowledging No Meat May, the campaign founded in 2013 to encourage people to avoid meat for a month. The...
Milton Griffiths. History in the making.
Animal activism in Australia has a fascinating and, mostly, quiet and understated recorded history spanning far back. The records are mainly indented in archives of the media cataloguing extraordinary achievements such as the issue of freedom of speech and privacy...
KANGAROO GENOCIDE IN NSW
https://youtu.be/Liv1tGitpoc ONGOING KANGAROO KILLING 6th June 2019 The Hon. MARK PEARSON (15:18):In August last year the New South Wales Government changed the rules to make it easier to shoot kangaroos for non-commercial purposes. As a result of the changes, those...
Support for Sydney nightlife
Being an openly gay man and having enjoyed the gay strip from as far back as the controversial late 1970s I appreciate and support the importance of a relaxed, diverse and unfettered Sydney night life. Before the last NSW parliament rose Robert Borsak had introduced a...
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