The Panel has intervened to attempt the rescue of two dogs, Knuckles and Zeus, on death row at the City of Greater Geelong. An urgent interim injunction stopping the dogs from being put down was obtained by Panel counsel last week. The matter returns for the hearing of an interlocutory (pre-trial) injunction in the Supreme…

  Keeping chickens in battery cages and pigs in sow stalls will attract fines under an Australia-first ban on factory farming to be introduced by the ACT Assembly today. In 2007 a bill introduced by ACT Greens MLA, Dr Deb Foskey, to ban the production of battery hen eggs failed to attract the support of…