Former premier Mike Baird stunned the industry when he banned greyhound racing. Labor watched on and will not follow his lead despite more damning revelations.
Amid rising anger at the Coalition government’s snap decision in 2016 to ban greyhound racing, a trusted cabinet colleague urged then-premier Mike Baird to stay firm, insisting no one would ever turn on him for showing kindness to dogs.
Baird described McHugh’s review as “chilling, confronting, horrific”, saying on July 7, 2016 that the former judge “shone the light on an industry that has overseen the slaughter of tens of thousands of healthy dogs whose only crime was they weren’t fast enough.”Initially, it seemed that Baird’s colleague was right. The revelations that greyhound trainers were secretly blooding their dogs with live bait was shocking. No one criticised Baird for wanting to end animal cruelty.
Minns cannot ignore the latest revelations. There will need to be a significant shake-up of Greyhound Racing NSW and former Labor leader Luke Foley is being courted by the industry to take on a leadership role.
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