The state opposition has said that Premier Mike Baird needs to learn from the move to resign of the man with the mandate to plan the greyhound racing that is to be put off in New South Wales. The Baird government announced that it would ban greyhound racing in July after which Dr. John Keniry was assigned to take charge of the greyhound transition committee. They were to seek advice from the greyhound racing industry. This would suggest an industry package that would help them wind down.

According to ABC Mr. Baird received a resignation letter from Dr. Keniry a couple of weeks ago. The letter stated that Dr. Keniry did believe the ban was necessary. However, he has agreed to maintain his role after further clarifications with the office. According to NSW Leader of Labor; Luke Foley Mr. Baird should consider reversing the ban in greyhound racing. He added that the letter sent to the premier needs to act as a wakeup call to Baird.

There has been a deep division within the Government due to the ban in greyhound racing. There has been a lot of National MPs and Ministers who have been fighting for the Premier to abandon the policy. Dr. Keniry’s report that was issued this month is the major hope for MPs that the Government will shift their position for the ban. However, the Premier Mike Baird has remained unshaken and still says the ban is still effective on July 2017.

Mr. Foley said that Mike Baird’s decision was a major mistake and that he should do away with his pride and cancel the ban. His party is currently divided and his coalition partner in uproar has stated that Mike Baird’s decision is a bad one. The acting Premier Tony Grant did not have a lot to comment on Dr. Keniry’s letter. He added that Dr. Keniry was still continuing with his work in matters concerning the greyhound industry on a transition package.

According to the government figures obtained by the Greens, there were about 1600 racing greyhounds that were reported to have died in Tasmania over the last three years. This also included 500 others the cause being that they were not suitable for racing. 488 deaths were caused by injury while the other 400 got destroyed since they were not suitable for re-homing. This was shown in a document from the Department of Primary Industries. There were 9 dogs that were killed in as single day sometimes early in the year in North West, while other 30 dogs were killed on a single day in Launceston in 2013.

All retired greyhounds will be re-homed unless there are cases of health or behavioral issues. This is according to the greyhound racing committee announcement made on Monday. Andrea Dawkins the Greens MP reported that these figures were disgusting to look at. She stated that this kind of act was uncalled for. All the government officials were against the euthanizing of dogs. According to Mr Rockliff an adoption program is being funded for about $248,000 and they are looking forward to building an adoption facility. He also added that there are programs that are dedicated to the re-homing of greyhounds.

A 55% reduction has been noted in Tasmania over the last 12 months in matters relating to the numbers of greyhound being whelped. Premier Will Hodgman is confident that the number of greyhounds’ deaths will be reduced in future. He is confident that by 2019 all greyhounds will have a new home. Tasmania has objected the banning of greyhound sports as declared from next July. These NSW ban was put into to enforcement due to the increased number of killings, live baiting and animal cruelty. This was according to the ABC Four Corners report. There are a number of graves that have been found in New South Wales and Queensland in the recent weeks. These graves are believed to contain greyhounds’ remains.

The main reason why the Baird government is facing accusations of being undemocratic is because they are fast tracking the passage of the controversial legislation meant to ban greyhound racing through NSW Parliament. The legislation is due to be introduced to the upper house on Wednesday by Liberal MP Duncan Gay who has successfully sought to make the government’s Greyhound Racing Prohibition Bill as urgent. According to Labor Peter Primrose this move is an embarrassment since the copy of the legislation was made available 10 minutes before parliamentary proceedings. He added that proceedings in parliament have been abused. He complained that they had not being given time to go through the bill.

A maximum fine of $11,000 will be charged to those caught organizing a greyhound race after July next year. This will also warrant a one year jail term according to the proposed new laws. An administrator who will be in charge of winding up the greyhound industry by July 1^st next year will be appointed by the government. In the meanwhile the administrator will also manage the affairs of Greyhound Racing NSW. They are yet to set an exact date to end greyhound breeding. Luke Foley says that he will reverse the ban if he is elected come 2019. He is also opposed to the idea that those affected by the bill will not be compensated. He added that banning greyhound racing would affect the livelihood of too many people.

Mehreen Faruqi who is part of the Greens promised that she would do all that it takes to make sure that the racing tracks and public land that belonged to Greyhound Racing NSW would remain unsold. She was happy that the government was planning to ban the sport. There are some three MPs who are from Baird government that are not in support of the bill but will not either vote against the government. Fishers and Farmers Party, Labor, the Shooters, and the Christian Democrats’ Fred Nile are against the government but with the Greens’ support the bill will have safe passage to the lower house. There will be continued discussion on the legislation late on Wednesday night.

A rally in Sydney’s inner west that was to be held on Sunday is what Laurina and Michael Chilcot had purposefully hoped would help celebrate the bad decision by Premier Mike Baird on the basis of banning greyhound racing. However, the two joined 150 people in expressing their anger at Luke Foley who is the Labor leader. The Labor leader is trying to oppose the banning of greyhound is NSW. Michael Chilcott said that the leader was supporting the wrong side. Atlas is the current dog that the couple has adopted among 15 others. Laurinna Chilcott said that saving dogs will bring about an impact in banning of greyhound racing.

She added that the banning of greyhound racing brought about tremendous joy to her and her husband. MP Mehreen Faruqi accused Mr. Foley of connecting the issue between the working class and other sections of the community in a rally held in a park in Newton, state Greens. She accused Labor of using the industry’s workers as political pawns. There are 24 race tracks that have been marked for closure before the government decided to ban greyhound racing earlier in the month. The industry is currently facing great financial issues according to Faruqi. She stated that the greyhound racing sport was on the verge of collapse and she and Mike Baird had completely agreed on that.

Mr. Foley said that banning greyhound racing will affect a lot of people in the long run. There will be a discussion on the banning of greyhound racing in NSW from July next year and it will be held on August 2. The banning of the sport is also been supported by the ACT government. Mr. Foley was accused by Naremburn a resident from Kylie Field and a greyhound owner of opposing the banning of greyhound racing to get access to marginal votes. She said that he was being unfair since the dogs actually needed their support. She angrily commented saying that the industry was not capable of reforming and they had wasted most of their time supporting Labor’s party.

Premier was congratulated for supporting the ban by one of the greyhound owners, Mel O’ Sullivan. He added that those supporting the ban recognized the efforts put forth to bring the house in order.

A five-year contract has been signed between Betting data and media services distributer, SIS and the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB). The contract’s main purpose is to collect and dispense greyhound’s racing materials to online and retail gambling operators. SIS’ low latency streaming website will be used in the distribution of Irish greyhound racing to new regions all over the world. The contract will also include international streaming rights. SIS at the moment delivers over 30,000 bags races annually, with the new agreement there will be over 1,500 races that will be covered at flagship IGB tracks such as Mullingar, Tralee and Youghal.

Greyhound Operations Manager for SIS, Gordon Bissett stated that they has been doing their best with the IGB and their customers to develop a dependable gambling product from Irish greyhound racing track for the last five months. He also added that he was delighted that they were working together in developing Irish greyhound racing both in their domestic market and in other new territories. With the Irish greyhound program growing consistently, there will be additional broadcast opportunities that will be advantageous to both retail and online gambling operators that will be supported by the new greyhound product.

With the addition of Irish greyhound racing, SIS will become the most inclusive in the market. The manager also said that their low latency platform will open up numberless global opportunities for their customers. IGB has also benefited from Irish greyhound racing market-leading streaming capability. The CEO of the Irish Greyhound Board, Geraldine Larkin stated that they were making a very important step in increasing awareness on the coverage of Irish greyhound racing both internationally and in the UK. He also added that technologies such as streaming would be used to make known their top level product to new audiences.

In addition to greyhound racing horse racing and a majority of other sports, SIS has added a lot of programs to its already growing platform. Various deals such as UAE horse racing, BAGS international greyhound racing and a five-year contract with Racecourse Media Group for picture and data rights have been made in the recent months.  These have been an addition to their 34 UK racecourses such as Epsom, Aintree, Cheltenham and Ascot.