SA greyhounds need your help
Well-documented evidence shows that reforms and regulation are unable to fix the welfare failings entrenched in greyhound racing. RSPCA South Australia has concluded that welfare issues within the greyhound racing industry are systemic and is calling for a managed phase-out of the industry.
A damning report
The Ashton Inquiry into the SA greyhound racing industry was instigated by the Premier Peter Malinauskas following confronting footage of greyhound abuse. Following the damning Ashton Report, the Premier gave Greyhound Racing SA a two-year ultimatum to “clean up its act” or face closure.
A Greyhound Industry Reform Inspector (GIRI) was appointed to oversee the implementation of the 87 reform recommendations. His final report is due to be presented to the government on 8 July 2026.
We need to remind the SA government that the key question is not whether reforms have been completed on paper, but whether greyhounds are experiencing significantly better lives as a result. An increase in deaths and serious injuries, continued overbreeding and lack of welfare oversight show that the answer is no.
Please contact the SA government and encourage them to assess the reform process on real welfare outcomes, not administrative compliance, and to phase-out greyhound racing in South Australia.
- For SA residents - send your own email. The most powerful way to stand up for SA greyhounds is to send a personal email to Premier Peter Malinauskas ([email protected]) and the Racing Minister Rhiannon Pearce ([email protected]) with a copy to your local state MP. We've included some information below that may help to tailor your email.
- For SA residents - use the template. The template below allows you to send an email to the Premier, the Racing Minister and your local state MP. Please make sure you edit the template to add your own insights, concerns and experience.
- For people outside South Australia. Please email Premier Peter Malinauskas ([email protected]) and Racing Minister Rhiannon Pearce ([email protected]). Let them know greyhound racing has shown itself to be unreformable across Australia and urge them to phase-out greyhound racing in SA.
Information to to help tailor your email
- More than 1,000 injuries occurred on South Australian tracks in 2025 including hundreds classified as major or life-threatening.
- In 2025, Angle Park had the highest total number of injuries of any track in Australia.
- On and off-track deaths and euthanasia remain unacceptably high.
- The SA greyhound racing industry is unsustainable with $4.3 million of taxpayer money given to the industry over the last two financial years. Most of Greyhound Racing SA’s remaining revenue is gambling money.
- South Australians taxpayers are increasingly funding an industry that profits from breeding and racing greyhounds, while the community bears much of the cost of caring for the dogs once they are no longer commercially useful.
- Rescue groups, volunteers and adopters continue to shoulder the responsibility for rehoming, rehabilitation and lifelong care of retired and rejected greyhounds.
- Greyhound Racing SA is responsible for both the commercial success of the racing industry and greyhound welfare. This is a clear conflict of interest and it is failing greyhounds.
- Greyhound racing has been subject to decades of reform, regulation and oversight across Australia. If regulation alone could solve these welfare problems, the evidence would already show it.
- RSPCA SA has concluded that the welfare issues within greyhound racing are systemic and has called for a managed phase-out of the industry.
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