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Click for a full list of areas in Australia with bans on Animal Circuses.

Parramatta City Council 2006 - David Borger is the mayor of Parramatta City Council. They have banned animal circuses from the area. Congratulations!	Lismore City Council Lismore City Council will send a clear message that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated in the shire after they voted 6/3 to ban animal circuses from Council-owned land. Thank you to Clr Jenny Dowell and all the councillors that favoured in favour of the ban.
Wingecarribee Shire Council Councillor Gordon Lewis is the Mayor of Wingecarribee Shire Council (Southern Highliands. He and his councillors voted in favour of a ban on Animal Circuses. Good work!	Hindmarsh-Woodville, Noarlunga, Marion, Tea Tree Gully, Elizabeth and Thebarton in South Australia As at July 2006, all of these council areas in South Australia have banned Animal Circuses. Good work!
Newcastle, Blue Mountains, Warringah, Woollahra, Hornsby, Pittwater, Manly, Randwick, Ku-Ring-Gai, Lake Macquarie, Liverpool, Camden and Lismore As at July 2009, all these councils in NSW have banned Animal Circuses. Good work!	Andersonstown Council, Belfast This council bans any circus containing animals from performing on council land
Cork City Council 2008 - Donal Counihan is the mayor of Cork City Council. This council passed a motion that would ban any animal act circuses using council land	Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College This is fantastic! a class at Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College (North Sydney) did a project on Captive Animals and one of the groups did a project on animals in the circus. The entire class learnt about the cruelty in animal circuses. Good Work!
Camden Council Thumbs up to Camden Council which has banned circuses that use performing animals	SAFE New Zealand SAFE in New Zealand is working tirelessly to rid that country of its last performing-animal circus and to free Jumbo the elephant from her years of circus slavery. See Free Jumbo Campaign
60 Minutes Great work to 60 Minutes for doing an excellent story on the cruelty endured by elephants who end up in Circuses and poorly kept Zoos. Read the story here	Ipswich Council This was the first council in Queensland to ban circuses with performing animals. Unfortunately, as often happens, circus owners have been able to secure non-Council land, in the region, to continue visiting Ipswich. We need to continue putting pressure on local communities, in addition to their Councils, to make sure that circuses with animals are not welcome in their regions at all.
Gold Coast Council x	PETA Thanks to PETA's ongoing campaign against documented appalling abuse of elephants in Ringling Bros Circus - 'the saddest show on earth' as PETA rightly calls it - the largest circus in the US has been compelled to answer charges for routinely beating elephants with bullhooks. (PETA has videotaped lame elephants limping out of Ringling's train cars.)

Baulkham Hills Council Baulkham Hills Council approves animals being forced to perform in circuses. We have repeatedly tried to contact the Mayor with information and been met with comments like "….we get a substantial amount of money from them (circuses)…and I’m not discussing it!"	Port Stephens Council Port Stephens council approves animals being forced to perform in circuses.They voted against a ban on animal circuses in 2007.
Wollongong Council Wollongong City Council has approved Animal Circuses even after we have communicated with them about the animal welfare problems with animal circuses. Shame on them.	Gosford Council Gosford Council has approved Animal Circuses on their land even after we have communicated with them about the animal welfare problems with animal circuses. Shame on them.
Shoalhaven Council Shame on Shoalhaven Council. They approve animals being forced to perform in circuses.