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PETA activist defends ‘reprehensible’ demands for farmers to capture - not kill - millions of mice

Aleesha Naxakis has fired back after being labelled an ‘idiot who has never been outside the city’.

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Aleesha Naxakis is urging farmers to catch and release the rodents rather than kill them,

Animal rights activists BLASTED as ‘idiots’ over ‘reprehensible’ mouse plague comments

‘The real rats in this whole plague are the people who come out with bloody stupid ideas like this.’

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An animal rights organisation has been blasted for demanding farmers not kill the mice plaguing their properties in regional Australia.

Michael McCormack defends government's extra $135m funding boost for regional Australia

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The latest announcement comes on top of a $250 million boost to regional areas that was announced over the weekend.

‘Community heart and hub’: Call to reopen pubs in outback Australia

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File image of the main street in regional NSW town Broken Hill. A push is underway to reopen outback pubs in the face of coronavirus restrictions.

Why panicked Queenslanders are slashing each others tyres

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There is tension between regional Queenslanders and city residents over the spread of coronavirus. File image.

Wombat loophole closed following Chinese hunting scandal

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Victoria has closed a four-decade-long loophole in parts of the state that categorised wombats as vermin.