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WA Animal Welfare Transparency Archive
Section titled “WA Animal Welfare Transparency Archive”A public memory — against forgetting.
A witness to systems that perform oversight while practising erasure.
What This Is
Section titled “What This Is”This site is a public evidence archive.
It records not only what government said — but what it refused to document.
Each FOI request produces one of four symbols:
✓ delivered · ~ procedural · ∅ no documents · ✖ exempt/withheld
Together they map how oversight collapses in plain sight.
Findings So Far
Section titled “Findings So Far”- FOI1 → Result vacuum — inspection data denied, then internally contradicted.
- FOI2 → Process vacuum — no oversight records, no risk frameworks, no SOPs.
- IR2 confirmed: DPIRD’s search was unreasonable and illogical.
- ER2 filed to OIC.
- FOI3 → Accountability vacuum — tests whether silence reaches ministers and integrity bodies.
- Ombudsman (Sept 2025) → formally refused to investigate OIC delays.
Outcome:
Oversight bodies now verify their own inertia:
OIC = time black hole → Ombudsman = “no jurisdiction” → Parliament = symbolic theatre.
The oversight chain has collapsed by design.
Why It Matters
Section titled “Why It Matters”Since 2023, unauthorised filming or entry into animal farming facilities has been criminalised in WA.
This leaves Designated Inspectors (DIs) as the sole legal witnesses inside spaces where animals often endure extreme confinement, mutilation, and psychological trauma.
What vanishes in this silence is not just institutional data, but the reality of lives endured in cages, crates, and industrial sheds.
Animals live, suffer, and die in silence. This site ensures that silence is not total.
Transparency Timeline (Key Points)
Section titled “Transparency Timeline (Key Points)”| Year | Event | Reality |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Animal Welfare Act | “Modern law” with no enforcement framework |
| 2020 | Independent Review | 52 recommendations supported, none enacted |
| 2023 | Trespass & DI Act | DIs created, transparency used to justify repression |
| 2025 | FOI Cycles | Void proven across law, policy, and oversight |
Structural Meaning
Section titled “Structural Meaning”What began as bureaucracy has revealed itself as architecture —
a deliberately hollow system built to display responsibility while erasing evidence.
This archive exists to preserve that design in public record.
Navigate
Section titled “Navigate”- 📜 Action Log – FOI cycles and institutional responses
- ⚖️ Official Claims vs. Reality – government statements vs. FOI findings
- 🏛️ 25 Years of Legislative Theatre – long-view pattern of promises and voids
- 📂 Resources – all source documents
- 🧭 About – method & philosophy
Last updated: October 2025