GREENPEACE is calling on consumers to boycott IGA toilet paper, saying it’s linked to the destruction of endangered tiger habitats in Indonesia. IGA is the only major supermarket chain in Australia to source paper products from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) through its Australian affiliate Solaris. It is then sold under the IGA Black [...]

  A 42-YEAR-old woman will appear in Perth Magistrates Court today over allegations she poisoned an eight-month-old shih tzu. The Belmont woman was charged by the RSPCA with one count of animal cruelty under the Animal Welfare Act 2002. The RSPCA alleges that on December 16 last year the woman pushed small cubes of meat [...]

Shipments of Australian cattle to Indonesia could resume next week, with livestock giant Elders expecting an export permit approval in days. Elders is the only Australian company to formally begin the notice of intention to export process with the Federal Government, putting its application in nine days ago. Managing director Malcolm Jackman said he expected [...]

The vast majority of submissions to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s livestock export trade demand an end to live exports. Of the submissions so far published on the review’s website, about 90 per cent are from people wanting the trade closed down. It’s expected more submissions will be published in the next few days. Meanwhile, [...]

A PLAN to make stunning of animals compulsory before slaughtering has been deferred for three months. A meeting of federal and state agriculture ministers in Perth yesterday rejected a South Australian bid to institute national mandatory stunning immediately. SA Agriculture Minister Michael O’Brien had moved for the national policy, saying it was hypocritical of Australia [...]

Federal and state agriculture ministers meeting in Perth have collectively stated their support for Australia’s live animal export trade. West Australian Agriculture Minister Terry Redman says he’s pleased with the outcome of Thursday’s meeting in the wake of the Indonesian live cattle trade ban imposed by Canberra. He said that federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig [...]

THE developer behind a port proposal for Kwinana says there will be no livestock holding yards at its port if the live export industry is moved there. James Point Pty Ltd (JPPL) Chairman Chris Whitaker sent a public letter to City of Rockingham Mayor Barry Sammels this week after Cr Sammels said in the Weekend [...]

An animal welfare expert says kangaroos are being tortured as a form of “entertainment” in urban bush south of Perth, with one kangaroo allegedly being ripped in two after it was tied to two cars and pulled apart. Mandurah-based fauna relocator and biologist Allison Dixon claims bush near Meadow Springs golf course just north of [...]

THE live sheep export industry has been warned to lift its game or be the next to face a backlash from the Australian community. RSPCA Australia chief executive Heather Neil said the live sheep trade had already had 30 years to get it right. “But they haven’t got it right yet, and so they better [...]