Somebody over on Reddit [1] went through all the submissions (there was a consultation period) and summarised and tallied them [2]. Fully 99%+ of submissions were against the bill. A sad day for democracy indeed. A church in Tasmania was in favour, because child pornography.
> One monkey in particular, Helen, [...] was a macaque monkey that had been decorticated; specifically, her primary visual cortex (V1) was completely removed, blinding her.
Wow, go humans. But I guess this is nothing in comparison with what the commercial farming industry gets up to :(
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/a3j466/assistanc...
2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dowpZ_Xtr1N_DgkHJN8i...