On 5 June 2015 Ozzy and Luna, two Staffordshire Bull Terriers living in Ceduna, South Australia, escaped from their yard whilst their owner was getting his infant child out of the car. Both dogs ran up to a man in the street and nipped him and then ran away. The man sustained superficial injuries. The…
After hearing reports that dogs were being beaten and flame torched alive in Northern Sulawesi, Rupert Imhoff, a research officer at the Bob Irwin Wildlife and Conservation Foundation, flew to northern Sulawesi to see first hand what was happening. What he found and subsequently documented is horrific. Dogs being pulled from cramped cages, clubbed on the…
The Humane Society of the United States recently defeated efforts by the Australian government to repeal a decades-old ban, set to resume in January, on the trade in kangaroo skins and meat. This came after an outpouring of public and media concern about the last minute efforts to promote the sale of kangaroo…
The External Review Special Committee established by the City of Knox to consider the fate of the dog Izzy has decided, after a hearing in August of her owner’s applications, to release Izzy to RSPCA SA. Such a course was contended in the alternative by Izzy’s owner at the August hearing, where she was represented by…
Panel Founder and director Graeme McEwen appeared late Monday afternoon 14 September 2015 in Canberra at a hearing of the Senate Rural Affairs Committee convened to consider Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon’s Bill to establish a national statutory authority with animal welfare functions to act as a spur and a counterpoint to the federal department of agriculture.…
Further to our post of 28 June 2015, at approximately midday on 25 August 2015, Diesel moved into his new home on an 80 acre farm. On the day of his rehoming he was last seen by a City of West Torrens Council officer happily sitting in the passenger seat of an old farm…
This story is attributable to the Sydney Morning Herald – follow the full story here: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/us-judge-overturns-state-law-banning-secret-filming-of-animal-abuse-at-agricultural-facilities-20150805-girwny.html#ixzz3i0MX287N
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/pit-bull-dog-on-death-row-dramatically-freed-during-late-night-raid-20150727-gil9fp.html#ixzz3h42eXjhJ
Further to our post of 28 June 2015 the Panel and the City of West Torrens are still working to find Diesel a new home. The City of West Torrens has prepared the flyer below which is now being widely distributed. The City of West Torrens will pay for Diesel’s first year of registration, training…
The Panel and Animals Australia each made extensive submissions to the then Opposition Leader, now Victorian Premier, on the overwhelming need for reform. Reform is now here: http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/new-pet-shop-rules-to-stop-puppy-farms-come-into-force-20150702-gi3bqc.html
PANEL INTERVENES TO SAVE DIESEL AND HELP FIND HIM A NEW HOME On 10 September 2014 Diesel, a 4 year old Staffy, was declared a dangerous dog by the City of West Torrens Council, South Australia, after a gate was left open at his home and he got out and attacked and killed a…
Izzy’s owner this morning won her appeal to the High Court of Australia. The Court found that a fair-minded observer might reasonably apprehend that the Council officer who was the moving force behind bringing the charges in the Magistrates Court against Izzy’s owner might not have brought an impartial mind to the subsequent decision by…
Judgment in Izzy’s High Court appeal will be handed down on Wednesday 10 June at 10:15 am . The result will be published to our FB as soon as it comes to hand. It will be recalled from previous posts that Izzy’s owner was unsuccessful at first instance in the Supreme Court of Victoria on complaints of…
AUSTRALIA FOR DOLPHINS brought a suit in a Geneva civil court against the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums seeking to require it to enforce its own code of ethics against inhumane capture. The parties had been ordered into 90 day settlement discussions by the Geneva Ct during which WAZA issued an ultimatum to JAZA: WAZA suspended the…
PANEL TAKES ITS AG GAG FIGHT TO SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING Panel founder and representative Graeme McEwen appeared on Friday 15 May 2015 in Canberra at a hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs convened to consider Senator Chris Back’s private member’s Bill to introduce an ag gag law in Australia. Here…
On 20 April 2015, for the first time in history a judge in New York granted an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a nonhuman animal. In a case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe issued an order to show cause and…
The Grand National was tinged with sadness today as a six-year-old horse died after falling at one of the hurdles. The novice hurdler, Seedling, died instantly after he hit and somersaulted over a large jump as he took part in the Mersey Novices Hurdle. He tragically fell at the second to last on the third day…
Izzy’s appeal to the High Court of Australia is to be heard in Canberra tomorrow, 14 April 2015. It will be recalled from previous posts that Izzy’s owner was unsuccessful at first instance in the Supreme Court of Victoria on complaints of procedural fairness about the City of Knox Panel hearing convened to determine whether Izzy…
Last Friday the Panel dispatched lengthy and detailed letters opposing Senator Chris Back’s Criminal Code Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill 2015 to all Federal Labor MPs and relevant Senate cross-benchers. A copy of the panel’s submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport may be found here (submission 240): http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Animal_Protection_Bill/Submissions. The…
On Friday the Panel again publicly called for the greyhound industry to be shut down following the discovery of 55 greyhounds in a mass grave near Bundaberg, Queensland . A 71-year-old man and 64-year-old woman have now been charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm after a police search found a rifle and ammunition in a…
On 11 August 2014 the Panel intervened on behalf of the Australian Society for Kangaroos to prepare and file on its behalf an application in the Supreme Court of Queensland to review decisions by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection to grant damage mitigation permits for the taking of Agile Wallabies in the Mission Beach area…
Earlier this year, Bonnie was surrendered by her owner to an outer-Eastern Sydney pound. Bonnie was then administered a temperament test. She failed. Hearing of her plight, the Panel approached the relevant Council and asked if it would agree to a program of rehabilitation / retraining for Bonnie with an appropriate animal behaviourist arranged by…
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In a judgment handed down this morning, Rush J of the Supreme Court of Victoria ordered, amongst other things, that the appeal be allowed; the VCAT order be set aside; the matter be remitted to the Tribunal, differently constituted, to be heard and decided afresh; and that the City of Brimbank pay Mylo’s owner’s costs.…