Marianne Thieme on lecture tour across Australia

At the invitation of Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless, Marianne Thieme will deliver a series of lectures in Australia between 4 and 17 May. During ten lectures at universities and a law firm, the Party for the Animals’ leader will talk about encouraging the animal rights debate and its political meaning.

Marianne Thieme, a prominent voice and pioneer of the global political animal rights movement, has been invited by the Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless to speak at the 2016 Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series. As founder and party leader of the Party for the Animals, Marianne Thieme will discuss her role in encouraging the animal rights debate in the Netherlands and other countries, as well as the role of influencing political decision-making as a necessary instrument for improving the position of animals, nature and environment. Following the example of the Dutch Party for the Animals, there are now 13 like-minded political parties worldwide and still more are being established.

Nearly 1700 people have already registered to attend one of the lectures.

Australian elections
With this series of lectures, Voiceless wants to make animal rights and welfare part of the national elections held in Australia this year. The Australian Animal Justice Party is currently represented by one seat in the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. In 2015, the party was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council.