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• In May 2022, the Somerset Regional Council voted to reject a development application for a new chicken farm of nearly 200,000 chickens. We lodged the only submission opposing this development.
• In February 2022, we finalised a legal challenge against the approval of East Kooroon feedlot in the Balonne Shire Council, which had been given the greenlight to build a 50,000 cow and 10,000 sheep feedlot, without the appropriate water requirements or any staging. We negotiated conditions which we believe will make it impossible for this feedlot to expand beyond 30,000 cows, based on the availability of water in the area.
• In September 2022, the Bundaberg Regional Council rejected a development application for the Kanche Kennels Chihuahua Puppy Farm, following a campaign that we ran which fostered over 3,000 public objections. This puppy farm has now ceased operating.
• In August 2022, coinciding with the Kingaroy Bacon Festival, we launched a major campaign, BACON.org.au. This campaign shines a light on the animal welfare, environmental and human health impacts that the Australian Pork industry doesn’t want consumers to know about. This campaign resulted in widespread media attention.
• In August 2022, as part of our BACON.org.au campaign, we released Imogen’s Story, a covert drone investigation showing the rough treatment of a downed pig at Swickers slaughterhouse in Kingaroy. This footage resulted in an animal cruelty prosecution against two workers, and the matter is still going through courts.
  Sunshine Coast Council rejected a puppy farm application for an intensive farm with 60 breeding dogs in October 2021. This win can also be contributed to Oscar's Law campaign that saw over 300,000 submissions made to council.
• In May 2021 we launched BEEF.org.au outside Beef Australia triannual industry event. The campaign received widespread media and included a 40 page report exposing the animal welfare and environmental issues concerning Australia's beef industry.
• In mid-2020 we launched Vegan4Life - a new vegan website full of information, tips, recipes, and a 30 day challenge to assist people in making the transition to veganism. The launch was accompanied with digital billboards throughout Brisbane and a brand new 24-page booklet.
  Investigated, publicised and lobbied for prosecution as a result of cruelty and neglect of more than 30 horses at a property in Charlton near Toowoomba. The owner was eventually charged with animal cruelty in August 2020.
• Following the ABC 7.30 report into the slaughter of ex-racehorses at Meramist Abattoir in Caboolture, we used this opportunity to magnify animal welfare issues in the horse racing industry. We also made a comprehensive submission to the Martin Inquiry which was referenced in the final report that recommended significant improvements to animal welfare regulations.
• We have fought back against ag-gag laws at the state and national level which resulted in the most draconian Queensland ag-gag Bill being rejected in 2019. We have raised awareness through the media and engaged with Parliamentary Committees regarding key issues with these type of bills.
• Exposed the plight of ‘Boe’ and other boars at a semen collection facility in Wacol, Brisbane, reaching well over 700,000 people through our videos online.
• We were part of the Choose Cruelty Free alliance (which included a large number of groups including the Humane Society International, Animals Australia and Humane Research Australia) that led to a ban of animal testing for cosmetic purposes in Australia (which comes into effect July 2020).
• Fought alongside other local activists and successfully campaigned for Brisbane City Council and sponsors to remove deer from the annual Christmas Parades from 2018.
• In February 2015 ALQ (together with Animals Australia) exposed the cruel practice of live baiting in the greyhound racing industry in Australia, via a high profile 4 Corners special. This led to a shake-up and overhaul of the industry Australia-wide, an end to industry self-regulation in Queensland and dozens of animal cruelty prosecutions.
• Our greyhound campaign put a stop to a planned new greyhound track at Slacks Creek in Logan. In 2021, a new PCYC centre opened at the site.
  Our greyhound racing investigations have resulted in a number of inquiries across several states in Australia. In NSW the inquiry influenced Premier Baird to announce a ban on greyhound racing in NSW by July 2017, which unfortunately he rescinded after the backlash that followed.
• Our efforts to end this cruel ‘sport’ continue.
  As a result of the fallout of the live baiting exposure, greyhound racing was banned in the ACT in 2017 and the ban came into effect in April 2018, and remains in effect today.
• We have reached hundreds of thousands of Queenslanders through our educational leaflets, stalls, film screenings, live talks, workshops, and media coverage to raise awareness about a range of pressing animal protection issues, to help show the public how they can ‘be the change’ for animals through their daily choices.
• Our rodeo campaign has shone a light on the cruelty inherent in this ‘sport’ and our campaign for a ban on calf-roping garnered over 60,000 supporters who signed our petition or emailed their MP and the Minister. We will not stop until rodeos are a thing of the past in Qld.
• In October 2013 we launched Chickadee, Australia's first animal rights magazine aimed at teen and pre-teen girls.
• End to exotic animal circuses in Australia. Our long-term campaign against the use of exotic animals in circuses helped achieve bans by Ipswich City Council (2009) and Gold Coast City Council (August 2009). Gold Coast City Council did reverse the ban in 2013 but then reinstated it in September 2016. In 2021, Stardust circus retired the last wild exotic circus animals in Australia (its lions and monkeys). After 40 years of campaigning, Australia now has no more wild animals used in circuses!
  Duck and quail hunting was officially banned in Queensland in 2006. We were part of a successful campaign against the recreational shooting of native ducks and quail, as part of an alliance with wildlife and environment organisations.
• We have assisted many University students in veterinary and life sciences courses to conscientiously object to harmful and outdated animal tests.
  Our lobbying has helped bring about several positive changes in animal welfare codes and the Animal Care and Protection Act (Qld) and a review of the Act in 2021-22.

As well as the above successes, we have helped bring animal rights issues to the public's attention through media, TV exposure, community stalls, events, flier distribution, as well as through our web site and social media. We have educated, influenced, and supported countless individuals to adopt a vegan diet and move towards a more ethical way of life.

* AnimalKIND is grateful for the assistance of other animal protection and environment groups that have also contributed to these wins. It is very rare that any win for animals is dependent only on one group or individual, and we certainly never want to claim credit for the work of others. We regularly collaborate with a number of these groups. It is only by working together with a broad range of groups, with a variety of tactics over a period of time that many of these wins for animals have been possible.