Campaigns

Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania is running a number of campaigns about cruelty issues in Tasmania. Our current campaigns are:

• Battery Hens - Battery Hen farming is alive and (unfortunately) well in Tasmania - find out more about this cruel farming method
• Circuses - The Cruellest Show on Earth - why AACT is opposed to circuses with animal performers
• Dairy Industry - Why dairy is cruel
• Duck Shooting - AACT lobbies for the banning of duck shooting in Tasmania
• Factory Farming - Includes information on battery hens and intensive pig farms, but also meat chickens and fish farms
• Greyhounds - the plight of Australian Greyhounds
• Intensive Pig Farming - exposing this abhorent industry in Tasmania
• Live Export Industry - campaign to end the export of livestock from Tasmania
• Muttonbird Slaughter - save the short-tailed shearwater
• Rodeos - Recent deaths on the Tasmanian rodeo circuit have brought this cruel form of 'entertainment' to public attention
• Running for Their Lives - exposing the cruetly of the greyhound racing industry
• Tasmania: Waging War on Wildlife - outlines the ways in which Tasmanian wildlife is abused (PDF)

In addition to these campaigns, AACT supports national campaigns such as the 'Save Babe' campaign to end intensive pig farming.

Animal Welfare Act

AACT made a submission to the review of The Tasmanian Animal Welfare Act. AACT's 35 page submission to the review is available online in PDF format for downloading.

AACT's concerns are many and include: the conditions in which factory farmed animals are kept; the exemption of hunting and fishing from the Act; the definition of an animal which currently excludes crustaceans and cephalopods (such as octopus); and tougher penalities for those committing acts of cruelty. See the submission for more information.