Freedom of Species

This week we talk with Ahmad Safi, executive director of Palestinian Animal League, Ahmad is a Palestinian animal rights and veganism activist and founder of PAL. His work focuses on raising public awareness and the establishment of new laws for …continue

These two species have brought together John Lemon of Painted Dog Conservation and Kevin Richardson to collaborate on an Australian speaking tour to help raise awareness of the plight of these two remarkable species.   We chat with Kevin about …continue

Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop from Beyond Zero Emissions talks about BZE’s Land Use Plan and its recommendations for Australia’s animal agriculture industry. And Judith Friedlander from the University of Technology Sydney sheds some light on why mainstream media goes so quiet on …continue

Ahead of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania conference, we talk to the opening night speaker, Dr Dinesh Wadiwel.Dr Wadiwel is a Lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney. His research interests include sovereignty …continue

OUR CAMELS – FERAL OR THOROUGHLY AUSTRALIAN? A recent paper written by Leah Gibbs, Jennifer Atchison & Ingereth Macfarlane & published in Geoforum raises many questions about the place of camels in Australia. When do we accept that a species …continue

This week we speak with Clair Linzey, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and discuss their upcoming summer school and major report, “Normalising the Unthinkable – The ethics of using Animals in Research”. http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/ Your browser does …continue

We chat with Mia Macdonald, Executive Director of policy action tank ,”Brighter Green” about global agribusiness & finance focusing on China , animal activism in China, that headline that circulated last week,”Feds vegan diet best for planet” & “What’s for …continue

When you enter the dark halls of lethal control we use for wildlife population and “‘pest control” 1080 poison is banned in most countries as an option -it is undeniably death by torture and it kills indiscriminately yet Australia still …continue