Animal Justice Party Australia


Australia

Established in 2010, the Animal Justice Party represents the interests of animals in the decisions of parliaments throughout Australia. It currently has over 5000 members. The AJP had its first representative elected to the upper house of the New South Wales state parliament in March 2015. More elected representatives followed after that.

Key priorities of the party include: ending the live export of animals; ending the killing of protected native wildlife such as kangaroos; ending cruel ‘intensive’ farming practices such as battery cages and sow stalls and other practices; and recognising that positive human engagement with animals creates a stronger, wiser, respectful, compassionate and healthier community.

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Break­through: Forced swim and smoking expe­ri­ments on animals banned in New South Wales, Australia

Good news! Thanks to our sister party Animal Justice Party (AJP) Australia, experiments forcing animals to swim and inhale smoke will be banned in New South Wales (NSW). A proposal from AJP member of Parliament Emma Hurst to ban these tests passed in NSW’s upper house. Hurst: “Forced swim and smoking experiments on animals are cruel, unscientific and unnecessary, and soon they will be unlawful.”...

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