Oppose Tweed Greyhound Track
If, like us, you believe animals should not be forced to run for gambling profits and public entertainment, please add your name to oppose another NSW Greyhound Racing death track.
NOTE: By signing this petition, you will receive ongoing updates and effective tools of engagement to help you lodge a formal objection when the Development Application for the proposed Tweed track becomes public.
The greyhound racing industry will never be a safe environment for greyhounds, and yet, Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) and the NSW State Government have continued to demonstrate their lack of will and ability to implement meaningful animal welfare reforms for NSW greyhounds.
GRNSW and the NSW State Government continue to invest millions of dollars of public money into propping up an industry that causes significant suffering, harm, and death to greyhounds. This is despite numerous publicly financed and damning industry inquiries, ongoing horrific racing injuries and deaths, over-breeding, and missing greyhounds. The industry is unsustainable and while other countries are moving to close the last remaining death tracks, GRNSW and the NSW State Government continue to ignore greyhound animal welfare, and support and promote this dying industry with public money.
The Tweed Heads Coursing Club (THCC) is proposing to build a new greyhound death track at Chinderah in the NSW Tweed region to replicate the Murray Bridge, SA complex, including an oval track and a straight track. The grandstand complex will reportedly resemble the former complex at Albion Park QLD with office, and restaurant facilities above a 60m long kennel block underneath.
THCC and GRNSW have dubbed the proposed Tweed track as the first NSW ‘Centre of Excellence’, although they haven’t explained what a Centre of Excellence actually is.
On 10 February 2021, Greens Member for Ballina, Ms Tamara Smith, spoke in the NSW Legislative Assembly to voice the Greens’ strong opposition to the proposed Tweed greyhound track.
A 12 week NSW Parliament e-petition titled ‘A petition opposing the development of a new greyhound racing track (Centre of Excellence) in the Tweed region closed on 27 May 2021 after collecting just under 7,000 NSW signatures. Despite clear public sentiments, NSW Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation, Mr Kevin Anderson, responded with a cursory reply on 13 July 2021, again demonstrating the Minister’s ongoing lack of interest and public concerns about the NSW greyhound racing industry.