Articles by: Ben Rossiter

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Experts and animals

The open family Foundation's Roo Cull' television advertisement, screened earlier this year, created quite a storm. It set a cat amongst the welfare pigeons, generating slanging matches between other welfare organizations and the Foundation. Open Family was charged with using offensive and objectionable imagery and adopting an 'extremist position'; it was labelled sensationalist and was criticized for operating totally within the realm of fantasy'. Its advertisement featured men with machine guns in a 4WD ute…