South West therapy horse Taffy receives gold medal at the RSPCA WA Animal Welfare Awards

A teenage miniature horse in the South West has been recognized by the RSPCA WA for his work brightening the everyday lives of people in retirement homes. Taffy was awarded the gold medal in the animal category at the RSPCA WA Animal Welfare Awards in Perth on Friday.

Anthony Albanese is criticised for boasting to a room full of farmers about ending the live animal export trade

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sharply criticised for boasting about destroying the live export industry at a dinner celebrating the achievements of rural women. Towards the end of his prepared speech at the AgriFutures Rural Women's Awards in Parliament House on Tuesday evening, Mr Albanese noted that this was his second event of the evening, … Read more

Zoologist jailed for ‘abhorrent’ animal cruelty

A well-known crocodile expert and scientist at Charles Darwin University has been sentenced to more than ten years in prison for his “grotesque” depravity and cruelty in torturing and killing dozens of dogs. Adam Robert Corden Britton was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Darwin on Thursday after pleading guilty to 56 counts of torturing … Read more