Animal welfare
Alternative labels
Animal cruelty
Report
Winter grazing taskforce: final report and recommendations
This report provides 11 recommendations to improve animal welfare in intensive winter grazing farm systems.
Discussion paper
Middle East sheep exports policy options discussion paper
The Department of Agriculture is conducting a Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) process to analyse the economic and regulatory impacts of policy options for the future regulation of live sheep exports to, or through, the Middle East. This discussion paper outlines some initial policy option ideas.
Discussion paper
Why is animal welfare important for sustainable consumption and production?
The 2030 Agenda envisages a development model “in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and … other living species are protected.” Yet while the relationship between animal welfare, environmental well-being, and human development is increasingly researched and evidenced, there remains very little recognition of this relationship and the crucial role animal welfare plays in...
Report
Animal cruelty offences in Victoria
Animal cruelty offences in Victoria is the first ever report on how animal cruelty is sentenced in the state. It identifies the animal cruelty offences people and corporations were sentenced for between 2008 and 2017, the sentences imposed for those offences and other offences sentenced alongside animal cruelty.
Policy
Policy initiative: Caring for animals
Australians are committed to ending animal cruelty. Yet every day, animals across the country are made to suffer to maximise corporate profit in the name of gambling, entertainment or food. The Greens believe we must properly care for animals and treat them with respect and compassion. We will fight for best practice in animal welfare...