13/06/2026
Did you know that behind secret padlocked gates and barbed wire fences in Western Sydney, baboons are being bred for research?
This week, A Current Affair featured Animal Justice MP Emma Hurst's exposé of a secret government facility that the public was never meant to see.
Through documents obtained from inside the compound, Emma uncovered the deaths of 24 baboons between 2021 and 2025.
Shakira. Klaus. Odette.
These animals were individuals whose lives began and ended inside a system built on cruel animal experimentation.
Every year, millions of animals are subjected to invasive and often painful experiments across NSW.
Primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, guinea pigs and native animals are born into laboratories and die there, with no chance at freedom.
Animal experimentation is not only cruel but it is failing. Up to 96% of drugs that pass animal testing never make it through human clinical trials.
This is all happening while humane alternatives already exist, including computer modelling, stem cell research and in-vitro testing. The science is already there. The only thing missing is the political will to invest in it.
Emma has spent years fighting to expose this industry, securing world-first bans on forced swim and smoking experiments, leading a parliamentary inquiry into animal testing, and winning funding for humane alternatives.
Now we need your help to finish the job.
✍️ Sign the petition and call on the NSW Government to fund humane alternatives and commit to ending animal experimentation in NSW: https://nsw.animaljusticeparty.org/end_animal_testing_in_nsw_petition?
and watch Emma here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-L10WK-pDvA
Emma exposed it and now together, we can end it.