Emma Hurst

Emma Hurst

Emma Hurst is the Animal Justice Party's first female Member of Parliament in Australia and the third elected MP to represent the Animal Justice Party in an Australian State Parliament. Prior to working in Parliament, Emma worked as a registered psychologist, having graduated from Monash University with a Masters in Psychology. Emma later worked as a campaign director at Animal Liberation and a media officer at PETA. During this time she ran a number of highly successful campaigns that saw two major duck producers successfully prosecuted by the ACCC, the end of various cruel wild goat racing events, multiple companies including major burger chains and butchers cease their sales of rabbit meat, and hundreds of animals released from medical research.