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End Primate Experimentation in NSW
Help Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst stop taxpayer-funded primate research in NSW.
A Current Affair recently featured an exposé by Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst on a secret government facility in Western Sydney, where baboons are being bred and rented out for experimentation behind padlocked gates and barbed wire fences.
Emma obtained documents from this hidden compound that they didn't want the public to see, including records of the causes of death of 24 baboons held there between 2021 and 2025.
Shakira, killed because she had a rash on her face. Klaus, killed because of a skin condition. Odette, killed because she seemed to have gas and bloating.
Baboons are highly sentient animals. They experience complex emotions and form strong social connections. Yet right now, they are being bred in NSW to have their bodies rented out for research, funded in part by your taxpayer dollars.
Up to 96% of drugs tested ‘successfully’ on animals fail in human clinical trials, making animal experimentation not only cruel but unnecessary.
Humane, human-relevant alternatives already exist and are producing more reliable results, including:
- Computer modelling and algorithmic testing
- Virtual reality and physical simulators
- In-vitro and stem cell research
In 2022, Emma Hurst led a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry that exposed what has been happening behind closed doors, animals subjected to procedures without anaesthesia, and killed in the hundreds when no longer needed. Now, new documents have revealed the reality inside this Western Sydney facility.
Most animals used in experiments have no pathway to freedom. And there is still no commitment from the NSW Government to end this.
Stand with Emma Hurst MP to stop taxpayer-funded primate experimentation in NSW.
✍️ By signing this petition, you are demanding the NSW Government stop public funding of primate research and urgently invest in humane, scientifically superior alternatives.
Further information:
Watch Emma Hurst's Expose on A Current Affair 2026
Animal experimentation on dogs and cats in NSW
Baboon experimentation survivors escaping in Sydney
