A tattooed baboon at the Wallacia facility Newly released documents have lifted the lid on what Animal-Free Science Advocacy (AFSA) describes as shocking and systemic cruelty inside Australia’s largely secretive primate research industry. Records from the baboon breeding facility at Wallacia, NSW, operated by the Sydney Local Health District, detail a series of traumatic deaths, invasive experiments and prolonged suffering with much of it

Shocking new documents obtained through Freedom of Information by Animal-Free Science Advocacy (AFSA) have revealed more than 60 disturbing deaths among research primates in Australian breeding facilities, including infants suffering catastrophic injuries, monkeys dying overnight unnoticed, and animals subjected to invasive experiments before their deaths. The records (from the years 2020 to 2025) detail incidents involving