Aussie Farms mistakes sewerage for fish in more blunders on its map

Sewerage ponds mistaken for a fish farm is just one of the latest blunders on Aussie Farms’ “animal cruelty” map. But director Chris Delforce says he is “unaware of any inaccuracies”.

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AUSSIE Farms has mistaken sewerage ponds for a fish farm in the latest blunder surrounding the animal activist group’s infamous map.

The Weekly Times can reveal sewerage ponds at Goulburn Valley Water’s treatment plant near Marysville are listed on the map as a fish farm.

Aussie Farms describes the sewerage ponds as “a fish or marine life farm” but lists the business name as “unknown”.

A spokeswoman for Goulburn Valley Water said its lag­oons had nothing to do with aquaculture or marine life farming.

“We’ll be working with the publishers to remove our facility from it ASAP,” she said.

The Weekly Times can also reveal one of the country’s largest onion producers is listed on the map.

A co-owner from the business said it only had vegetable crops and no livestock, and would be working on getting themselves taken off the map.

Aussie Farms executive dir­ector Chris Delforce said he was “unaware of any inaccuracies” on his map.

The Weekly Times last week revealed one of Victoria’s largest vegetable farms was listed on the Aussie Farms map as a poultry farm. The vegetable farm has since been deleted, in what is believed to be the first time a farm has been removed from the map.

Aussie Farms also started listing businesses on its map that aren’t farms and don’t own animals — with the first of those being The Weekly Times.

This is despite the group recently claiming the map only pinpointed “the locations of businesses known or suspected to be engaging in animal cruelty or exploitation”.

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The Weekly Times’ office was pinpointed on the map last week with the description “office of extreme right-wing farming blog … harassing the family members of an Aussie Farms director”.

The Weekly Times recently revealed Mr Delforce’s mother Julie, who is a senior federal government agriculture official, has links to Aussie Farms and that Mr Delforce’s own family member’s cattle farm was not on his map.

Mr Delforce said he added The Weekly Times to the map because “it is not a media organisation, merely a public relations branch of the animal agriculture industry, and therefore has a rightful place on a map of that industry”.

Victorian Farmers Federation egg group vice-president Brian Ahmed, who is listed on the map, said it obviously contained many inaccuracies.

“It seems like they have just used Google to search for properties with a big shed and have labelled those as a farm,” Mr Ahmed said.

“Chris constantly contradicts his explanation of what the map is but regardless of that it still keeps us awake at night”.