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“I am still going to work for animals.” Photos from the chamber taken during Mark Pearson’s valedictory speech on November 9, 2022. Thank you to the AJP supporters who watched from the public gallery or live online. You can watch the video of the speech here.
What a special day this was. A few weeks ago, just a few days before World Kangaroo Day, members of the Yuin community met at NSW Parliament House to conduct a smoking ceremony and deliver a message stick, representing the Yuin Declaration for Kangaroos. This historic event calling for the Australia-wide protection of kangaroos was […]
STATEMENT FROM THE HON MARK PEARSON MLC Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party NSW “I am glad both men have been charged and am grateful to NSW Police and the wider community for actively seeking justice for this duck. I am disappointed the offenders have received fines of just $450 each. Even with […]
Kangaroo populations across Australia are plummeting due to commercial and non-commercial shooting, car strike, and habitat destruction. For the last two years, the Office of Mark Pearson has run the Summer Kangaroo Count, a citizen science project which hundreds of people across the country have taken part in. The results of the 2021-2022 count are […]
A parliamentary petition calling for an end to mulesing will be tabled in NSW Parliament in the coming months. The petition, which will be tabled by Animal Justice Party MP Mark Pearson, has recieved over 1,500 signatures to date, surpassing the 500 needed to be tabled in the NSW Legislative Council. The petition was launched after […]
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 Animal Justice Party, Mark Pearson, and passed without opposition. Detailing the effects […]
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 confirmed they will ban the live export of sheep, but not cattle, and have […]
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, dingoes are baited with deadly 1080, which causes a slow, agonising death that no […]
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 River in person to meet with iwi representatives and river tribes […]
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 would protect all dingoes from lethal control, including shooting, trapping and […]
You’ve probably seen Kangaroo, the incredible documentary about the slaughter of Australia’s most iconic animal. Recently, the directors of Kangaroo, my friends Mick McIntyre and Kate Clere, released the trailer to their new TV series, Eating Plants, which you can watch here. Set in multiple countries, Eating Plants is an upbeat series that explores plant-based […]
Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party Mark Pearson will visit Port Stephens on Wednesday, April 13 to help launch the party’s Port Stephens Regional Group. A free community event will be held at 6:30pm this Wednesday, 13 April at Nelson Bay Bowling and Recreation Club (Stockton Street), with RSVP’s essential. “This […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 8/04/2022 Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party Mark Pearson will visit Port Macquarie this Thursday, April 14 to help launch the party’s Port Macquarie Regional Group. A free community event will be held at 6:30pm this Thursday, 14 April at Rydges Port Macquarie (1 Hay Street), with RSVP’s […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 1/04/2022 Upper House MP for the Animal Justice Party Mark Pearson has condemned a controversial new government bill that is set to pass through the Legislative Council of New South Wales Parliament today. The Roads and Crimes Amendment Bill would make it an offence to “enter, remain on, climb, jump on […]
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 kangaroos. The bill is an Act to amend the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, and would prohibit the issue of licences under that act which currently authorises lethally harming […]