Horse racing’s inconvenient truth – 182 horses put to death last year

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed the Office of Racing Integrity coming clean on horse racing’s “inconvenient truth” – that horses are put to death and made into…

Feeding racehorses to greyhounds must end

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will call for Tasracing to introduce a welfare rule to crack down on owners slaughtering their unwanted racehorses for dogfood without justification, including in…

Andrew speaks in Parliament about the greyhound industry

“Deputy Speaker the head of Tasmania’s Greyhound Adoption Program has been found guilty of racing a drugged dog and is currently suspended. “Now I would have thought it to be…

Where are the hundreds of missing greyhound puppies?

Independent Member for Clark Andrew Wilkie will join Let Greyhounds Run Free to demand an investigation into the fate of 262 greyhound pups that disappeared in Tasmania between 2016 and…

Another ship stuffed with live sheep heading off for the northern-hemisphere summer

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, is demanding the Federal Government stop a ship with 56,000 sheep sailing from Fremantle to Kuwait tomorrow. The Al Kuwait is due to leave Western Australia…

Question in Federal Parliament on live animal export

This is a Federal Government that makes exemptions to ALLOW animal cruelty. This is a protection racket for the live animal export industry.

End the cruelty

Live Animal Export Prohibition Bill to be tabled again today Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will this morning introduce another Private Members Bill to wind down the live export…

A statement on animal cruelty at the Royal Hobart Show

The dreadful suffering of a young bull at the Royal Hobart Show is further compelling evidence that rodeos should be banned in Tasmania. This episode also proves again that animals…