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Victoria to outlaw strangulation and consider making animal cruelty a domestic violence offence

Government says research suggests survivors of strangulation are more likely to be seriously injured or murdered by the same partner

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Unions to target Labor MPs after inquiry finds duck hunting should be banned in Victoria

Electrical Trades Union boss Troy Gray says campaign to continue the activity will now expand

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Victorian inquiry to recommend state ban on duck hunting amid union backlash

Call from government-chaired committee comes despite significant opposition from some unions and varying views within Labors

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Hunters accused of burning culturally significant trees

Duck hunters have desecrated culturally significant sites, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has been told.

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Victorian parliament to hold inquiry into pig welfare following alleged abattoir break-ins

Animal Justice MP Georgie Purcell says the parliamentary inquiry will focus on gassing methods and forms of confinement in the pork industry.

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Duck hunting season cut short at Victorian reserve to make way for critically endangered parrots

Release of captive-bred orange-bellied parrots near Lake Connwarre has Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP claiming ‘dirty political interference’

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The hunt: the little-known war being waged over horse and hound foxhunting in Australia

It’s a scene that conjures images of the controversial British activity. UK hunters are travelling 16,000km to do it outside Melbourne

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Victorian duck hunters urge parliament not to bow to ‘political correctness’

Submissions to inquiry described hunting as generational tradition, while animal activists displayed dead ducks outside parliament building

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Tracking technology to protect greyhounds will go ahead in Victoria after unanimous support

Motion from Animal Justice Party MP succeeds as regulator welcomes ‘opportunity to update and enhance our existing systems’

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Victorian MP to call for compulsory digital system to track illegally exported greyhounds

Animal Justice party’s Georgie Purcell wants scanning technology used on every dog, in real time, at every stage of life

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Go ahead for Vic inquiry into divisive duck shooting

Victoria's upper house has passed a motion to set up a parliamentary inquiry into the hotly contested future of duck shooting in the state.

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Election of micro parties on preferences renews calls to change Victoria's 'broken' upper-house voting system

Micro party MPs with less than 3 per cent of the primary vote have been elected once again in Victoria's upper house, prompting renewed calls for the unique system to be scrapped.

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‘It’s not tokenism’: why these young candidates are contesting the Victorian election

They face questions about their experience but these would-be MPs are adamant they’re seeking proper representation

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‘It was a charade’: preference whisperer Glenn Druery falls for Animal Justice party’s Victorian election sting

Exclusive: Having successfully attracted the support of Druery’s clients, minor party switched its allegiances at last minute

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From sex activist to progressive trailblazer: Fiona Patten’s remarkable rise to influence

The new wave of teal independents seeking to impact politics could learn a lot from Victoria’s ‘hardest working MP’

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