Animals Australia

[20] Their investigations into the export of Australian cattle to Indonesia in 2011, which showed animals being subjected to eye-gouging, tail-breaking, multiple throat cuts, "roping slaughter" and incorrect use of slaughter restraint boxes,[21] led to a temporary suspension of the trade to Indonesia and the implementation of industry-wide Supply Chain Assurance Standards, monitored by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

[24] In 2020, Animals Australia again submitted video evidence to the Department of Agriculture showing Australian cattle being slaughtered in Indonesia using methods that breached live export standards (ESCAS)[25] Whistleblower footage provided to Animals Australia, and shown by the organisation to then-Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, depicted Australian sheep suffering severe heat stress on board the Awassi Express live export ship and several other live export voyages to the Middle East during 2017.

[26] This evidence, along with scientific review highlighting the inherent risk of heat stress during the Northern Hemisphere summer, led to the Australian Government prohibiting live sheep shipments from Australia during the highest-risk months of the year, being May to October.

[30] A series of advertisements, featuring animated pigs and chickens and a musical soundtrack to the song Somewhere, performed by players from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, was played on commercial television stations and in cinemas.

[31] The film was accompanied by celebrity endorsements, such as from Michael Caton, Missy Higgins, Dave Hughes, Michelle Bridges, Rove McManus and others.

It also focuses on the widespread abuse of greyhounds in the industry, including the killing of thousands of young and healthy dogs every year.

[35] At the Canidrome racetrack in Macau life-threatening injuries are a daily occurrence, and no Australian greyhound is on record as surviving for longer than three years.

[41] The song's lyrics of "Someday, somewhere/We'll find a new way of living" and "Peace and quiet and open air wait for us/Somewhere" are used to poignantly highlight the suffering of pigs and other animals in factory farms; and suggest that their "dreams" of freedom could come true.

[46] Since 2003, White has conducted numerous investigations in the Middle East and Indonesia into the treatment of live exported animals from Australia.

[55] In 2011, footage obtained by White and a co-investigator in 11 Indonesian slaughterhouses processing Australian cattle was featured on ABC's Four Corners program.

[56] The resulting story led to the suspension of live exports to Indonesia and unprecedented public and political pressure to end the trade.

[58] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to the community as an animal rights and welfare advocate".