Voiceless Blog

Established in 1986, the Coalition Against Duck Shooting (CADS) has been campaigning for over thirty years to achieve a permanent ban on recreational shooting of native waterbirds in Australia. Earlier this year, we spoke to CADS founder Laurie Levy in Melbourne about his long running campaign.

We caught up with some of Australia’s animal law postgraduate researchers at the University of Melbourne, to discuss their exciting research and to find out what attracted them to animal law and what advice they have for budding animal law students.  

Peter Singer is a philosopher and professor at Princeton University. He is renowned for his book, Animal Liberation, which is celebrated as a foundational text of the animal protection movement. He is also well known for his theory of utilitarianism, which simply put, takes the suffering of all beings into account.

Voiceless recently spoke to Peter Singer about his views on modern society’s relationship with fishes.

When my father, Brian, and I founded Voiceless fifteen years ago, we were both certain this would be our life’s work, that protecting animals from suffering was our calling. In the fifteen years since, the flames of our joint passion and dedication to stop animal cruelty have not, even for a moment, dimmed.