The much-anticipated report from the National Health and Medical Research Council – has been published. The implementation of the 3Rs in Australia September 2019 reviews the understanding of and commitment to Replacing, Reducing and Refining (3R’s) the use of animals in research by drawing on a survey of Australian investigators,

Humane Research Australia has unveiled damning information about the unexpected deaths of primates bred for research in Gippsland It has been claimed that primates used in Australian research are kept in world class facilities: “The welfare of every animal is continuously monitored and recorded. The outstanding facilities provided to support

Humane Research Australia has published an overview of methods and technologies that can replace animals in biomedical research and testing. Animal experiments are both cruel and unreliable. Animals are NOT predictive of human outcomes and so should not be used to study human diseases. But researchers often argue that we

Tomorrow, (24 April) marks World Day for Animals in Laboratories, and Humane Research Australia, is calling for an end to Australia’s involvement in barbaric traumatic brain injury experiments carried out on animals at universities across the country. Humane Research Australia CEO, Helen Marston: “Each year Australian researchers are provided huge

The Australian Senate has today passed the Government’s Industrial Chemicals Bills 2017, including measures to prohibit reliance on new animal test data for chemicals introduced into Australia for use as ingredients in cosmetics. Passage of the bill was made possible thanks to an agreement reached with Humane Society International (HSI)