Thursday, 7 March 2024

Northern Victoria Region

Georgie PURCELL (Northern Victoria) (12:49): (732) My constituency question is for the Minister for Racing. In November one of Northern Victoria’s local wildlife rescuers stopped at a freeway in Wangaratta North to attend what he thought was a road strike incident. Instead he found not one but two dead dumped greyhounds. Why these greyhounds were killed is not yet clear, but authorities are investigating. What we do know is that new research by the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds has found that 31 greyhounds were killed away from the track in 2023 after being seriously injured, the most of any state in the country. My constituents want to know what the government is doing to investigate these off-track deaths in Northern Victoria.