Wales, Scotland and New Zealand Banned Greyhound Racing. Help Make NSW Next. | Wales, Scotland and New Zealand Banned Greyhound Racing. Help Make NSW Next

Wales, Scotland and New Zealand Banned Greyhound Racing. Help Make NSW Next.

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Around the world, greyhound racing is being shut down. In NSW, the injuries, deaths and cruelty continue. Help us make NSW next.

Write to your MP and tell them greyhound racing must end.

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I am writing to ask your support for the phase-out of greyhound racing in New South Wales.

In March, Wales and Scotland passed legislation to end greyhound racing. Just over two weeks later, in April, New Zealand did the same. Each government reached the same conclusion. The injuries, deaths and poor welfare outcomes associated with greyhound racing cannot be justified, and industry-led welfare measures have failed to adequately protect dogs.

Australia is now one of only a handful of countries that still permits this industry, and our greyhound racing sector is shamefully the largest in the world.

While Wales, Scotland and New Zealand have listened to their communities and chosen to put animal welfare ahead of gambling profits, NSW has yet to make the same decision.

NSW’S SHAMEFUL RECORD OF GREYHOUND WELFARE FAILURES -

• Although a ban on greyhound racing in NSW was announced in 2016, then-Premier Mike Baird gave the industry “one more chance” in 2017, and cruelty, injuries, deaths and governance failures continued.

• In 2024, a whistleblower report from Greyhound Racing NSW’s former Chief Veterinary Officer exposed systemic cruelty, mass deaths and misleading rehoming figures, prompting the resignation of the GRNSW CEO and the launch of the NSW Drake Inquiry.

• The Drake Report was scathing and made 65 reform recommendations, despite being barred from considering closure of the industry. The Government’s Response to the Report failed to mandate key recommendations on breeding, exports, track safety and independent oversight.

• In 2025 alone, 287 greyhounds were killed racing across Australia and 10,785 injuries were recorded.

• In 2025, the NSW greyhound industry’s own regulator recorded 257 charges, including drugging (substances), failure to provide safe, sanitary and adequate care and failure to account for the whereabouts of greyhounds.

• In the past 12 months, further allegations and criminal matters involving industry participants continued to surface in NSW, including live baiting and child sex offences.

Together, these developments reveal an industry that continues to generate scandal, cruelty and serious harm in this State.

I respectfully ask that you support a planned phase-out of greyhound racing in NSW, including an end to public funding and subsidies for the industry.

NSW should not still be permitting this cruel industry while the rest of the world moves on.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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