Scope
This long-running select committee presented a succession of reports on matters relating to animal welfare in Australia. Inquiries included dolphins and whales in captivity, the export of live sheep, kangaroos, animal experimentation, the racing industry and the culling of large feral animals in the Northern Territory.
Sequence
![Select Committee on Animal Welfare hearing evidence from witnesses at a public hearing of its inquiry into kangaroos, 14 May 1986. Seated facing camera L-R: Senator David Brownhill, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators George Georges, Barney Cooney and Norm Sanders. Seated with backs to camera L-R: Witnesses Bob Spanswick [General Secretary, Customs Officers Association of Australia] and B.J. Wallett [Consultant, RSPCA].](http://103.18.108.76/uploads/feb/febc61e6b3f3e5c78289/c159-animal-welfare-select-committee-hearings-14-may-1986-j1-1.jpg)
Select Committee on Animal Welfare hearing evidence from witnesses at a public hearing of its inquiry into kangaroos, 14 May 1986. Seated facing camera L-R: Senator David Brownhill, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators George Georges, Barney Cooney and Norm Sanders. Seated with backs to camera L-R: Witnesses Bob Spanswick [General Secretary, Customs Officers Association of Australia] and B.J. Wallett [Consultant, RSPCA].
![Select Committee on Animal Welfare, 14 May 1986. L-R: Senator David Brownhill, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators George Georges, Barney Cooney and Norm Sanders.](http://103.18.108.76/uploads/d66/d66a9427114f68257d13/c159-animal-welfare-select-committee-hearings-14-may-1986-j1-2.jpg)
Select Committee on Animal Welfare, 14 May 1986. L-R: Senator David Brownhill, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators George Georges, Barney Cooney and Norm Sanders.
Senator Paul Calvert holding a bilby tabled by Officers of the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory at the Alice Springs hearing of the Select Committee on Animal Welfare inquiry into feral animals in the Northern Territory, 22 November 1990.