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Animals Australia is Australia's peak animal protection body. Since 1980 we have been uniting organisations and individuals in Australia who share the conviction that animal suffering is unnecessary and unjustified.

Animals Australia currently represents more than 40 member groups, and thousands of individual members nation-wide. We provide a strong united voice for those who cannot defend themselves.

Our vision is for a world where animals are not exploited for profit or entertainment and where all animal suffering is eliminated.

Animals Australia intelligently and passionately lobbies governments to effect changes in laws to protect all animals. We have been instrumental in the introduction of government advisory committees to monitor and promote new initiatives in animal welfare in Australia. We have representation on all major animal welfare committees. We have undertaken two major investigations into the brutal slaughter and handling of Australian animals in the Middle East. Evidence from the Kuwait 2003 Investigation was instrumental in lodging historic animal cruelty charges against a leading live export company. Our work hasf resulted in four ‘60 Minutes’ programs and a ‘Four Corners’ program, and the footage taken during the 2006 Middle East Investigation ledto a suspension of the cattle trade to Egypt - making it the first time the trade has been halted on animal welfare grounds.

Animals Australia is committed and unrelenting. We expose suffering, we educate the wider community, we research alternatives and we present solutions to government and industry.

Our goal is to significantly and permanently improve the welfare of all animals in Australia.

Get the Facts: Find more about our work by clicking on the following links:

Australia's Live Export Trade: An indefensible trade in animal cruelty

> SaveBabe.com: Find out the truth about where 95% of pork, ham and bacon comes from.

> Codes of Cruelty: How Australian laws have abandoned farm animals

> Factsheets on other Australian animal welfare issues

Videos

More videos available at the Animals Australia channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/animalsaustralia

Rodeo Cruelty

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This five minute video was taken by a concerned attendee of this national rodeo event. What you see on this video is a cruel event known as calf roping, which is still legal in rodeos in all Australian States and Territories, except Victoria. This video was provided to Telstra who, at the time were a major sponsor of the rodeo. Thankfully, senior decision makers at Telstra were horrified at what they witnessed and withdrew their sponsorship of the event.

Factory Farmed Fashion -
Australia's Ultra-Fine Wool Industry

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Recent investigations have revealed a 'growing' animal industry that the vast majority of Australians would be unaware of.
'Ultra-fine' wool growers supply an elite international market and wealthy buyers from the world's foremost fashion houses.
Ultra-fine wool growing is an intensive animal industry. Specially-bred sheep are kept indoors in individual small pens 24 hours a day for four or five years. Nylon coats are worn by the 'shedded' sheep to further ensure that dust and dirt does not enter their fleece -- and, like every other intensive animal industry, the behavioural and social needs of the sheep, intrinsic factors which provide quality of life, are completely ignored.
The impacts of chronic stress caused by an inappropriate environment are obvious. The confined sheep continually chew on the wooden slats and strands of wire which enclose them. Repetitive body movements were also observed - classic stereotypic behaviours caused by a barren environment (which leads to chronic boredom), combined with the inability to exercise, or to perform simple natural behaviours such as the ability to graze on grass.

Charlotte's Web - Where are they now?

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Animals Australia had the wonderful opportunity to be involved in the rehoming of the forty-two piglets who played 'Wilbur' in Paramount Pictures' feature film, Charlotte's Web.
The special featurette Where are they now? on the recently-released Charlotte's Web DVD tells the story of how Animals Australia formed an unlikely partnership with Hollywood movie producers to save Wilbur from a life of imprisonment in a factory farm.
Click here for the full story. You can visit some of the happy, healthy (and huge!) 'Wilbur's' and other rescued farm animals, at Edgar's Mission Farm Animal Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia.