Dogs are not social animals, they are pack animals mostly caught up in the world of human intervention. Left to their own devices they are serious pack hunters and always will be.

The simple non emotional truth is that if you don't like what you call 'cruelty to animals' then the only way to prevent this type of culling is to close the entire industry down. Duds are duds, which ever way you look at it and no one running a business is going to continue feeding and training a dud.

Most of you do gooders would walk straight past a homeless kid to save one of these dogs.

These dogs are bread for a purpose, no different to an unwanted dairy bull calf.

Beach, thank you for your apology, very big of you, and your stocks have certainly gone up with me.

The cruelty in greyhound racing is not isolated, but systemic as participants try to obtain the slightest of advantage over others. Cruelty extents from live baiting to unnecessary injury to dogs themselves.
For years greyhound racing has been given the opportunity to clean up its act, time and time again its has proved to be incapable or unwilling to do so. Now time has run out, and the only solution is the complete abandonment of this despicable pastime.

The dog get to eat the loser of the last (horse) race and the those who don't make it there.

If licensing and inspection doesn't work and self regulation hasn't worked for many years, it is because the politicians who form government do not support the public bureaucrats responsible.

Politicians are known to deny poor and even illegal behaviour by a colleague to keep their own behind in clover. Self interest. There are plenty of past examples at State level, including a foul child molester in Qld (Labor). It affects the administration of police and justice portfolios as well. Whistleblowers cannot risk pointing the finger at present day examples in the 'cowards' castles.

I would say that the continued existence of cruel and corrupt practices in racing are very strong indicators of more serious deficiencies at a political and departmental senior executive, esp. CEO levels. For example, what is preventing audit discovery? Red flags! In that case as a very first condition there needs to be some legislated independent program of regular, random, comprehensive audits of government agencies, outside of the control and negative influence of the Minister and agency head.

Simply banning racing covers up a spectrum of unethical conduct that could be affecting other, potentially all, government agencies. Politicians are always happy to have a fall guy and close the book, as long as they themselves can escape accountability.

Independent politicians should be adamant as a matter of course that all government agencies have accounting systems and audit arrangements, eg a properly constituted and active audit committee, that are in FULL accordance with the standards of the relevant professional associations.

So aim higher and there is a readymade solution I'd say to the Greens. The 'fish rots from the head' as some say and from their experience auditors say they agree with that.

I am aware that all States and the feds do have at least the semblance of audit programs in place. Also that agency heads and senior management can easily make a game/sham of it. That is NOT, NEVER, possible without politicians from both sides of the House turning a blind eye and for obvious personal gain.

Life goes on.Make the poor suffer while the rich get richer.
Why not ban Horse Racing first.
The free entry for politicians to Race meeting may be the main reason.
Bob Hawke was never seen at a greyhound meeting but along with Rich Boys Shorten and Turnball regular guests at the horse races.

If criminal cruelty is rife in the industry, where is the list of successful prosecutions?

Surely application of the law would clean up greyhound racing and preserve the jobs and assets of those who are doing the right thing.

Wonder what Wentworth Park would be worth as high rise real estate?