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This opinion piece was first published on AlterNet on 6 February 2018. We witness our beloved pet pooches and feline friends experiencing moments of joy, pain, fear and even grief. We accept that they feel, they have an emotional world of their own. With this understanding, comes a moral imperative and legal framework to protect them from suffering.
This opinion piece was first published on Mamamia on 26 January 2018. I was a sensitive kid, my brother always said over-sensitive. And highly anxious about the suffering of animals.
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This opinion piece was first published on Your Zen Life on 22 October 2017. Do you sometimes feel, like me, overwhelmed and disempowered by the enormous problems in our world?
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This opinion piece was first published on Mamamia on 17 October 2017. Do you believe in kindness and compassion towards animals? A majority of us do, so the statistics show.
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It’s been a whopping ten years since my father Brian and I founded Voiceless and an anniversary is a great moment to pause and reflect on what we’ve done. Personally, it’s been a period of enormous change. I’ve had three children, published a memoir, moved house five times and countries three times. Phew! Voiceless has been a foundation rock for me throughout; a vessel in which to pour my passion, ideas and idealism for a better, more compassionate, world.
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Life for the dairy cow here in Australia and in other developed countries is not what most people would imagine it to be. Indeed, dairy industry bodies have carefully cultivated images of contented cows grazing in green pastures over many decades despite the industrialised market telling a very different story. Read an exploration into the reality of dairy cow production by Voiceless Council member Dr Deidre Wicks.
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In her latest column Voiceless Council member, Dr Deidre Wicks, has written an excellent essay on the subject of the 2012 Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series. She writes: "While Australians and others throughout the world are protesting against the vile Canadian seal hunt now taking place, the never- ending, but largely hidden slaughter of our own native icon animal, the kangaroo, goes on unabated and largely ignored. "
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This opinion piece was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 August 2009. A decision by McDonald's and Woolworths to increase free-range egg use spells doom for animal-cruelty offenders, Ondine Sherman writes.