Unleashed Action Alerts

Show some love to hens and to Tassie!

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Here's two things worth knowing about Tasmania. Firstly, people from Tasmania are called "Taswegians". Secondly, and more importantly, Tasmania has become the first state in Australia to commit to the complete phase out of battery cages! Awww yeah!!

If you've ever written a letter, shared a campaign video or spoken out for battery hens and mother pigs, then you deserve a massive bunch of flowers. Without your support this announcement may not have occurred.

You can share the love with this cool new design from Unleashed. Make it your profile pic on fb or twitter, share it, pin it ... whatever you like! It's a simple way to let people know about the great news, as well as showing your support for Tasmania's announcement.

(To download the pic, simply right click the image and select 'save image as'.)

Don't forget to tag your friends in the photo to grab their attention, too!

Let your poet loose to WIN!

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Show the world you're "kicking ass for the animals!"

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"It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right." - Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

Standing up for what you believe in is a powerful thing. As someone who speaks up for our animal friends, you deserve to wear that as a badge of honour. So we've got just the thing for you. Use your facebook cover to shout at the top of your lungs: you're "kicking ass for the animals!"

It's easy as 1-2-3. Simply...

1. Right click on the image above and save it to your computer (remember where you save it!)
2. Go to your Facebook profile, hover your mouse over your cover image and click "Change Cover".
3. Select "Upload photo..." and choose the image that you just saved (you shouldn't need to resize if you've copied from us).
4. Finally, tag your friends so they can see that you're 'kicking ass' on your Facebook profile!
5. Oh yeah, one last thing. Drop www.unleashed.org.au into the image description so your friends know where to find heaps more info.

Et viola! A fresh facebook cover that shows the world what you're all about!

(p.s. You can also pin the image to a board if you're on pinterest. But you don't need instructions on how to do that!)

Save greyhounds from cruel export!

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Shoot down hunting laws!

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Be a mate to primates!

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WHIPS HURT. BAN THEM.

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Help ban the sale of shark fins!

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Vote For Animals Australia in the Shorty Awards on Twitter!

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The Shorty Awards are known as the Oscars of the Twitter world -- and Animals Australia has been nominated! Whooooo!

Voting is so simple and you can make your vote count by clicking here.

Honouring the best producers of short content on social media, previous winners have ranged from NASA to Sesame Street's Grover!

Unleashed's big sis, Animals Australia is stoked to have been receiving nominations. And 2011 was a huge year for the organisation AND on Twitter:

#BanLiveExport was in the Top 5 trending hashtags when the explosive Four Corners doco, featuring Animals Australia's Indonesian investigation, went to air.
Thousands of people learnt about the legalised cruelty of Australian industries like factory farming, live export, jumps racing, duck shooting, dairy and more, just by followers retweeting Animals Australia's tweets calling for action.
Some fab celebs and household names retweeted or mentioned Animals Australia on Twitter, like The Chaser's Andrew Hansen, Pippa Black, Geoffrey Mark Taylor of For Our Hero, MP Andrew Wilkie, rocker Jona Weinhofen, Missy Higgins, actresses Elizabeth Berkley and Alicia Silverstone, Channel 10's The Project and more.

After all, what good is a Twitter account if supporters aren't retweeting, and tweeting us local news to follow up on? Animals Australia's Twitter followers make it what it is. We reckon this would be a huge win for the whole online community should Animals Australia take out the gong, and a top way to show our appreciation to everyone who has helped spread the word!

Please vote NOW at http://shortyawards.com/animalsaus. Be sure to include the @AnimalsAus mention; the #activism hashtag; and a reason, for your vote to count! Let's help Animals Australia bring it home!

Help Save Lion Cubs From a Life in the Circus!

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Add animals to your new year's resolutions!

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End of year YouTube mission

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2011 has been an absolutely huge year for animal rights in Australia. And we couldn't have done it without you! (that's right, we reckon you rock!)

Can you believe we had over 40,000 media stories this year? That's a whole lot of people who have learnt more about animal rights this year, and now we want you to help us show even more people how to change the world for animals!

Animals Australia's Year in Review video is chockas with all the highlights from 2011. Every extra view, comment and like this vid gets on YouTube helps make sure that even more people are likely to see it. So jump on your YouTube account, watch the vid, give it a thumbs up and leave a comment.

Sometimes, it can take just one image to change a life. This year we've exposed live export, cruelty to dairy calves, factory farming and many other cruel industries to millions of people. Help us reach even more people to create a better world for animals!

Bake an Egg-free Cake to Celebrate World Egg-FREE Day!

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Did you know the egg industry grinds up male chicks alive? No joke... About 12 million of them suffer this fate (or are gassed to death) each year in Australia. All because they were born male -- and so can't produce eggs. Check out this investigation from the world's largest hatchery (sadly, the same things happen here)...

This Friday, October 14th, the egg industry is trying to claim a day all to themselves: World Egg Day. But for these male chicks, not to mention battery hens locked in cages too small to stretch their wings for their entire lives, there is little to celebrate.

So on Friday we'd like to invite you to sweeten up your day and protest the egg industry's cruelty to chickens by baking an egg-free cake!

Whether you're a cupcake connoiseur, mad about mudcake, or if it's all about the apple and almond tea cake for you, there's a whole world of cruelty-free cakes you could bake to celebrate World Egg-FREE Day.

Just make sure to share your cake creations with your mates and show them how scrumptious cruelty-free cooking can be. Happy baking!

P.S. While you're at it, please make this image your profile pic on Facebook to encourage your friends to get involved too. After all, the more people who get involved, the more cruelty-free cake there'll be to go around ;)

(Right click on the image to download and save the file ('save image as'), upload it to Facebook and make it your new profile pic. Then tag all your friends, to grab their attention!)

Show how awesome Oceans are to win a DVD!

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Back in May we gave away a bunch of free passes to see the Disney doco Oceans. This underwater adventure is now set for release on DVD in October and we've got a copy from the good folks at Hopscotch Entertainment to give away!

This visually stunning film gives you the chance to experience up close encounters with some amazing underwater creatures. Watching these playful, protective, curious and loving sea animals, it's clear that they deserve our respect and protection just as much as any other animals.

All you have to do to go into the running to win a copy of the Oceans DVD is tell us (in 25 words or less!) who you will show the film to first and why.

And here's a little sneak peek! Good luck!

Take the Veg Pledge for World Veg Week October 1st

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Tell Japan to stop killing dolphins!

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Rally for Oscar's Law this Sunday Sep 18th! Ban Puppy Factories!

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It's not just pigs and chickens that endure awful lives on factory farms -- dogs do too!

Many people don't realise that for pet shops to keep puppies 'in stock' puppy factories in remote areas across Australia churn out litters from unlucky dogs kept in cruel conditions and used as breeding machines.

These dogs are often confined in small dark cages. Many may not even get washed, or receive necessary veterinary treatment, which can lead to painful, life threatening infections or diseases.

With so many dogs in shelters needing homes -- the very thought of puppy farms creating more is crazy!

Oscar is one lucky dog who has been rescued from a puppy farm after 5 years alone in a cage. And his rescuer has started the campaign "Oscar's Law" calling for these cruel farms to be shut down, and pet shops banned from selling animals.

Be a voice for the thousands of dogs kept silent and out of sight on puppy factories across Australia. Join the rally for Oscar's Law this Sunday September 18th at 12noon.

Sydney -- Belmore Park (Print the flyer) (Facebook event here)
Melbourne -- Parliament House (Print the flyer) (Facebook event here)
Adelaide -- Parliament House (Print the flyer)

See you there!

Take the Chicken Cruelty Myth Busting QUIZ!

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Watch The Cove on Sunday night!

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Watch The Gruen Transfer TONIGHT!

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Here's some cool news!

Animals Australia's Ban Live Export television advertisements will be scrutinised on The Gruen Transfer tonight on ABC1 at 9pm (Replay on Thurs ABC2 8.30pm)

The Gruen Transfer, the television show that analyses all your favourite tv advertisements, praises the awesome ones and rips the others to shreds, will be looking at the two latest Animals Australia's Ban Live Export ads TONIGHT-- Yikes!

Make sure you tune in and tell all your friends to as well. While the latest ad is still airing on all commercial stations, and ahead of the historic vote in Parliament tomorrow -- this is a fab time for the panel to be discussing the ads and maybe even put their two cents worth in on the live export trade.

Don't miss it!