Another Melbourne Cup day, another opportunity for Tasmanians to understand the cruelty at the heart of the racing industry.
The Greens strongly support the RSPCA and PETA in their call for the Gutwein Government to ban horse whips on the race track.
The number of swabs being proposed in the drug detection process for the coming year are fewer than the number undertaken in 2018-19.
Minister, last year during Estimates we talked at some length about TasRacing's Off the Track program.
Are you able to provide any information on the chain of custody arrangements for horses in the racing industry in Tasmania?
The actual number of swabs taken in 2018-19 was 4226. Yet the target for swabs taken by stewards is 3500 in 2021-22.
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.
On Saturday night a harness racer won race 7 in the Tasmania Cup after whipping his horse heavily for the duration and using a cruel practice called hocking.