Greens Release Plan for Greyhound Racing Transition
The Greens have released a transition plan for the greyhound racing industry in Tasmania
The Greens have released a transition plan for the greyhound racing industry in Tasmania
Tasracing annual report's racing animal welfare statistics for GAP have shown that there have been more dogs euthanised in the last year than in the five previous years put ...
We understand that it's much easier now for the chief vet to give an approval for a dog to be euthanised at GAP because it is an imperative of the industry.
Minister, I want to understand what happens when the new legislation comes into place with the Tasmanian Greyhound Local Rules of Racing. When there's no longer a Director of Racing in the Office of Racing and Integrity, will there no longer be a requirement to rehome greyhounds in the way that it is currently set out in the Local Rules of Racing?
Thanks to the Greens greyhound inquiry in 2015, it is now a requirement that greyhounds exiting the greyhound racing industry must be rehomed.
Minister, currently the Greyhound Local Rules of Racing have it that the Director of Racing, the head of the integrity body ORI, signs off on killing dogs, so-called euthanising. The Greyhound Adoption Program or the head of Tasracing has to apply to ORI to have a greyhound killed. That is the current situation. The new act, which you've talked about a number of times, has, as I understand, responsibility for this decision moving to Tasracing. Can you clarify if that's the case?
Local rules were changed to require rehoming, and any requests to kill a dog must be approved by the Office of Racing Integrity's (ORI) Director of Racing, the so-called 'no-kill policy'.
Information compiled by animal rights and greyhound welfare groups confirms 27 greyhounds, who raced on a Tasmanian track in the 23/24 season, have already died
Information compiled by animal rights and greyhound welfare groups confirmed 27 greyhounds who raced on a Tasmanian track in the 2023-24 season have died so far, including one sent through the Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP).
Has the Greyhound Adoption Program formally adopted the March 2023 Animal Throughput Policy, which endorses a higher rate of so-called euthanasia for former racing greyhounds?