Yesterday, the live baiters of the greyhound racing industry received heartening news – stringing up helpless piglets, chickens and rabbits for them to be mauled to death and suffer an agonising, slow death in sheer terror is punishable by a mere $5,000 fine (as reported in this video).
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What Have We Learnt from QLD’s Proposed Increase to Breeding Fees?
In line with recommendations from the MacSporran Report, Racing Queensland has proposed to increase the cost of the registration of a breeding female greyhound from $250 to $1200. The additional $950 will be diverted to greyhound rehoming and welfare initiatives. We were pretty surprised to see this response from the industry: so surprised, in fact, that we had to blog about it because a Facebook post just ain’t gonna cut it this time.
Shut It Down Rally: Brisbane’s National Day of Action
This post is long overdue, but as they say better late than never! Brisbane was proud to host the largest Shut It Down rally in the country, with Queensland Police officers estimating the crowd at South Bank on Feb 7 to be about 700 people.
Mystery Deaths of 12 Healthy Greyhounds in Steward Reports – TAS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 February 2016 Mystery Deaths of 12 Healthy Greyhounds in Steward Reports – TAS An independent analysis of the Office of Racing Integrity’s stewards’ reports from 1 Oct 2015 – 31 Jan 2016 has found that 12 greyhounds were scratched from races because they were ‘deceased’. … Read more
A Nationwide Day of Action to End Greyhound Racing in Australia
This is Dr Gullone’s speech given at the Melbourne rally on February 7th, 2016. Good morning and thank-you all for coming today to give your voice to the most exploited and abused breed of dog in the world. We are all here today at this Nationwide rally to let governments in Australia know that … Read more