TasRacing – Greyhound Deaths
Minister, we would like to understand how many dogs have died at Tasmanian tracks this year.
Minister, we would like to understand how many dogs have died at Tasmanian tracks this year.
These gentle dogs are clearly still being treated as waste products, despite the Government's greyhound recovery rebate scheme and TasRacing's no-kill policy.
The number of swabs being proposed in the drug detection process for the coming year are fewer than the number undertaken in 2018-19.
The Office of Racing Integrity has had a succession of people stampeding from the office.
It is pretty clear that the Office of Racing Integrity is broken and it has been broken on the Liberal Government's watch.
About 20 Office of Racing Integrity staff have left since 2018 and the ABC reports many vacancies around the field. Morale is at an all time low.
Lutruwita/Tasmania should be clean, green and cruelty-free, but over seven years under the Liberals, the welfare of animals has suffered.
Again this year we focused on the two major codes which are horseracing and greyhounds.
How many unannounced steward inspections of greyhound and horse racing premises were undertaken in the past financial year?