Speak up about greyhound welfare in NSW

The NSW Legislative Council has established a Select Committee to inquire into the Greyhound Welfare & Integrity Commission (GWIC), and in particular its success and ability to regulate welfare in the greyhound racing industry in New South Wales.

I am pleased to have been appointed as Deputy Chair of this Inquiry, and have been working closely with animal welfare organisations like the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds and Animal Liberation to ensure that we get justice for the dogs in this cruel industry.

We need your help to make sure that this Inquiry has the best possible outcome – can you take action in these two easy ways?

1. Make a personal submission to the Inquiry

The greyhound racing industry has powerful lobbyists in the Government’s ears. It’s crucial that as many people as possible make submissions to the inquiry in support of the enforcement of greyhound welfare and the oversight of the industry by the Greyhound Welfare & Integrity Commission, and call for funding to be allocated by the Government and not by the industry body that GWIC is tasked with regulating.

The committee is not accepting pro-forma submissions so I haven’t provided a submission template, but I encourage you to write a short submission that addresses the terms of reference and includes any directly relevant personal experiences. You may also like to consider touching on these points:

GWIC’s importance in enforcing welfare standards in the greyhound racing industry, and the necessity to support and empower the Commission in doing their job.
The need to change the Commission’s funding model so that the Government and not Greyhound Racing NSW, the industry body that the Commission is tasked with regulating, is responsible for allocating funding to the Commission.
The importance of the Commission cracking down on bad behaviour in the greyhound racing industry, including by implementing whole-of-life tracking of greyhounds, amending the greyhound rehoming policy to prohibit the euthanasia of healthy greyhounds, and ensuring the imposition of maximum penalties for administering prohibited substances.

Lodge your submission to the Inquiry here.

2. Ask others to do the same

Once you’ve made a personal submission and completed the survey, please share this blog post with your friends to ensure that as many people as possible act to protect the welfare of greyhounds in New South Wales!

Warm regards,

Abigail

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NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

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