Bout time greyhound racing was banned ....

[apprenticegnome]

I think you are right Meako. Going on the Liberals track history so far it's all about development. We're without both a rail service and a replacement light rail service in Newcastle. The Government has been more focused on removing the old line than installing light rail and going from it being a green corridor for the public to now splitting it with development.

 

[BredliFreak]

DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE LIGHT RAIL!

sorry I just hate the idiotic ACT Government. Of all the innovative and more efficient technologies they could have invested in they chose something so primitive

 

[kingofnobbys]

I think you are right Meako. Going on the Liberals track history so far it's all about development. We're without both a rail service and a replacement light rail service in Newcastle. The Government has been more focused on removing the old line than installing light rail and going from it being a green corridor for the public to now splitting it with development.

Saw that coming unfortunately.... NCC is way too developer orientated .... the other thing I expected would be likely would be for the rail corridor to be converted to a parking lot , it was never going to become a public access green zone (knew that was just spin to get the locals on board).

 

[snakeboy1997]

The biggest problem with baning grayhojnd raceing is now gray hounds will go extinct and wont be around any more and the same will happen with horses if they dont have a use theres no reasin to keep them around and any way theres nothing wrong with raceing grayhounds that is wat they are bred for and as to do with the live baiting of rabbits gray hounds are a hunting dog they are also bred to kill rabbit so its just nature for them to do so

 

[BredliFreak]

[MENTION=35481]snakeboy1997[/MENTION] No, plenty of people keep both of those animas as pets. BTW not trying to be an ahole but that spelling was cringier than a Jacob Sartorius music video

 

[jase75]

What a load of crap Snakeboy! If you think it's ok to tie live pigs, rabbits and possums to a lure and let Greyhounds rip them apart while they are still alive then you should never be allowed to own a animal again. And why would they become extinct ? No other dog species that doesn't race have become extinct. Like Bredlifreak said it just means they will be kept as pets rather than an item from which to earn an income.

 

[apprenticegnome]

NCC was only a minor player in regards to the removal of the rail system in Newcastle. The Instigator and main driving force came from the same State Governnment along with the many of their co-horts from the Hunter that have had to step down due to corruption. This same State Government is now using sloppy fabricated figures to shut down an industry which will result in development potential all the while telling us that places like Wentworth Park will stay Public Land.

 

[kingofnobbys]

NCC was only a minor player in regards to the removal of the rail system in Newcastle. The Instigator and main driving force came from the same State Governnment along with the many of their co-horts from the Hunter that have had to step down due to corruption. This same State Government is now using sloppy fabricated figures to shut down an industry which will result in development potential all the while telling us that places like Wentworth Park will stay Public Land.

Yes true, and they were the same mob who sat on their hands when OneSteel shutdown the Steelworks throwing thousands of people out of jobs (most of them permanently .... despite the spin that there were supposed be lots of jobs available for those who wanted them to step into , and of creating thousands of new high tech jobs at the new industrial park west of Toole Street ( lucky if there are 100 jobs there - and mostly these are low tech low skilled jobs) and with a new international container terminal on the vacated steelworks site (which never happened - nor did the new coal loader on the site either - it is still empty).
The same mob who bent over backwards to save Whyalla and Kembla steelworks more recently.

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What a load of crap Snakeboy! If you think it's ok to tie live pigs, rabbits and possums to a lure and let Greyhounds rip them apart while they are still alive then you should never be allowed to own a animal again. And why would they become extinct ? No other dog species that doesn't race have become extinct. Like Bredlifreak said it just means they will be kept as pets rather than an item from which to earn an income.

True - if they really love the breed, it'll survive as pets. If not , well , IMO no great loss if the breed did go extinct here in Australia = one less introduced breed of animal.