INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie wants all livestock exports to be fitted with electronic tags and traced once they leave Australia. Existing laws mandate the tagging of cattle but there’s no legal requirement to track them through all stages of the supply chain. Mr Wilkie today introduced to parliament a private member’s bill that aims to […]
A newborn piglet has been given a second chance at life at an animal sanctuary where she has more of a liking to the dogs, rather than the pigs. Dreamy was left in a box at the front of the Sugarshine Farm Sanctuary, in Lismore on the New South Wales north coast in November. Kelly […]
Has a work colleague ever stuck their wet nose in your hand? Or eaten all the biscuits? Or spent most of the day asleep? This is the story of Faye, a two-and-a-bit-year-old gangly greyhound who works nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday at her office in Glen Iris. She has a cubicle (it’s a bed with her toys) and […]
