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Animal Welfare

Motion: Committee Established for Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Inquiry

June 14, 2022

Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. T.A. Franks: That the Environment, Resources and Development Committee inquire into and report on further legislative and policy measures to better protect the dolphins in the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary and the Port River, with particular consideration to be...

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Greens to Ban Jump Racing in SA

May 04, 2022

The Greens will today introduce legislation to finally ban jumps racing in South Australia. Queensland stopped jumps racing in 1903, WA in 1941 and the sport was banned in NSW in 1997. The last race was held in Tasmania in 2007. It has now...

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Greens Pledge to Protect the Port River Dolphins

February 22, 2022

The Greens today released a four-point plan to better protect Adelaide’s much-loved Port River Dolphins and pledged to take a Bill to implement the plan to the next Parliament. The Greens’ announcement comes as South Australia welcomes the arrival of newborn calf Neon to...

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Speech: Port River Dolphins

November 17, 2021

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:24): I rise today to speak about the few remaining bottlenose dolphins that call our Port River home. Throughout the years we have seen many reports of dolphins becoming entangled in fishing equipment, fatally injured by boat propellers and, since...

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Motion: World Kangaroo Day

October 13, 2021

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (16:35): I move: That this council— 1. Notes that 24 October is World Kangaroo Day, celebrating kangaroos and raising awareness about the largest commercial slaughter of land-based wildlife in the world; 2. Acknowledges that loss of habitat, bushfires, drought, predators,...

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