In Estimates this year, when we asked you and your director of Biosecurity Tasmania about animal welfare issues at VDL, both of you denied any knowledge.
The actions of those individuals who maimed two defenceless wallabies, by shooting them with a bow and arrow, are despicable.
When twenty senior farm managers put their serious concerns about animal welfare in writing, government must pay attention.
Madam Speaker, I am off and racing because I want to speak briefly about the mystery of the horse death at the Brighton training grounds on Friday, 31 May.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a reply to budget estimates, discussing the death of a horse at the Brighton training tracks.
Today we proudly delivered the Tasmanian Greens’ fully costed, long-term vision for Tasmania, our Alternative Budget 2019-20.
The former minister oversaw an appalling regime of seal mismanagement, which has seen almost 9000 underwater explosions and at least 1200 seals being shot.
Thousands of Australian fur seals are being shot by ‘beanbag’ bullets, underwater explosives, injured, blinded, deafened - and killed in some cases.
Tasmania’s animal welfare laws fail to protect the rights of animal to live free from cruelty and neglect, placing emphasis on the profits of industry.
Seven months after this tragedy we still have no clarity on what caused the deaths of 16 horses on the Spirit.