CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

Australasia’s first animal law text book: Turn up the dialogue
Peter Sankoff  6

ARTICLES

Why doesn’t animal protection legislation protect animals? (And how it’s getting worse)
Ian Weldon   9

Transparency in Australian animal research regulation - How are we doing?
Siobhan O’Sullivan   15

Animal cruelty law and intensive animal farming in South Australia – light at the end of the tunnel?
Malcolm Caulfield   36

Putting the chicken before the egg; layer hen housing laws in Australia
Katrina Sharman   46

Suffering under the law: could `human’ rights be used to protect the basic interests of all animals?
Tara Ward   57