Voiceless, the fund for animals, today announced a new $25,000 grant as part of its annual Grants Program that will focus exclusively on exposing the iniquities of factory farming.

Leading animal advocate, Raj Panjwani, will deliver the keynote lecture of the 2008 UNSW/Voiceless animal law lecture series at UNSW on 22 May about his advocacy to protect animals from cruelty. 

Voiceless’s submission to the Senate Inquiry into Climate Change and the Australian Agricultural Sector highlights the urgent need for a national strategy to deal with the overwhelmingly negative effect that intensive farming practices have, not only on the Australian environment, but on climate change generally.

Take one steel water pipe or tow bar and bludgeon
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Australia’s attention may currently be focused on the killing of whales and dolphins by the Japanese or the slaughter of seals in Canada but the largest massacre of land based animals on the planet is taking place in our own backyard.

Voiceless applauds the Australian Law Reform Commission for devoting the current edition of its twice yearly publication, Reform, to the subject of Animal Law.

The ALRC’s role is to identify the need for law reform and to influence legal change. Its journal is considered a forum for high-quality debate on contemporary legal issues.