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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Damon Cronshaw

Animals in medical research on agenda, after inquiry exposed 'cruelty'

Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst (right) with Buddy, a medical research survivor, and Patrice Pandeleos who adopted the beagle-kelpie cross. Picture supplied

A $4.5 million project to help reduce animals in medical research will involve the Hunter, but the chances of ending animal experiments appears to be decades away.

The Minns government, which announced the funding on Thursday, said "non-animal technologies" were "beginning to exceed the performance of animal models".

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