Working to end greyhound racing and expose industry harm. This group supports legislative reform, community education, and accountability for animal cruelty in the racing industry.

Greyhound Working Group

Group Status: Active

Greyhounds are bred, trained, and raced for gambling profits in NSW. The greyhound racing industry continues to cause serious injury, death, and long-term harm to dogs, despite repeated claims of reform.

Public money continues to support an industry that relies on confinement, overbreeding, and the routine disposal of dogs who are injured, too slow, or no longer profitable.

The Animal Justice Party NSW is working to end greyhound racing and shift policy towards protection, transparency and genuine animal welfare.

What this working group does

The Greyhound Working Group campaigns to end greyhound racing in NSW. The group focuses on:
• supporting legislative reform to phase out and end greyhound racing
• supporting our MP Emma Hurst’s work in Parliament
• community education and public awareness
• research, submissions, and accountability efforts
• supporting peaceful outreach and campaign actions

The group works to keep industry harm visible, documented, and politically unavoidable.

This working group meets online, usually once a month. Meetings are used to share updates, discuss priorities, and plan next steps for the campaign. You do not need to be based in a particular location to take part.

How to get involved

This is an active working group.

To join, email [email protected] and include:
• Greyhound Working Group
• Your name and email address
• If you would like, you can also mention how you might like to be involved.

Supporters can contribute in different ways depending on time and skills, including research, submissions, outreach and campaign support.

Working Group achievements and highlights

• Helped to coordinator and deliver the Million Dollar Disgrace campaign and protest at Wentworth Park in October 2025, bringing together community members, animal welfare organisations, and elected representatives to publicly oppose greyhound racing on Crown land.
• Led and deployed the Truth Truck campaign, a mobile advertising project exposing the reality of greyhound racing to the wider public beyond the protest site. The truck reached hundreds of people who were previously unaware that greyhound racing continues in NSW.
• Supported outreach and community engagement, including market stalls and conversations that led to hundreds of letters being written calling for the closure of Wentworth Park Greyhound Track.
• Contributed to the delivery of more than 500 letters to the Minister for Lands and Property, which were formally acknowledged in NSW Parliament by Emma Hurst in November 2025.
• Supported the open letter signed by more than 25 organisations and community groups calling for the Wentworth Park racing lease not to be renewed beyond 2027.
• Helped maintain sustained public and political pressure that contributed to the NSW Government decision in December 2025 to end greyhound racing at Wentworth Park and return the site to community use.

These actions demonstrate how coordinated community campaigning, parliamentary advocacy, and public pressure can lead to change for animals.

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