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Mike Baird said he had been wrong to ban greyhound racing and that the industry needed a chance to prove itself. (Image: Lachlan French)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Australian state of New South Wales<\/a> has dramatically reversed a ban on greyhound racing, as the state Premier Mike Baird claimed this week that he\u2019d \u201cgot it wrong\u201d and that the sport deserved a \u201csecond chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to ban the practice was handed down\u00a0in July in the wake of a government investigation that found animal cruelty within the industry to be \u201cwidespread and systemic.\u201d At the time Baird declared the findings of the report to be so \u201cchilling and horrific\u201d that he was left with \u201cno acceptable course of action but to close this industry down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The investigation, conducted by former High Court judge Michael McHugh, reported that somewhere between 48,000 and 68,000 dogs had been killed in the state alone, either because they lacked the caliber to be racing dogs or had outgrown their usefulness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Got It Wrong\u201d<\/b><\/h2>\n

It also found that the illegal practice of \u201clive-baiting\u201d was commonplace within the industry. Live-baiting involves trainers tying live small animals to mechanical lures for dogs to chase in the belief that it will encourage them to chase dummy bait faster during actual races. Around 20 percent of trainers used the method, said McHugh.<\/p>\n

Industry body Greyhound Racing NSW had a deliberate policy of misreporting the figures of deaths and injuries, he added, and concluded that the question of whether the industry had lost its \u201csocial license\u201d to operate should be considered. Baird said that the industry was \u201cno longer entitled to the trust of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday he was forced to defend his sudden U-turn on the issue. “We got it wrong. I got it wrong, cabinet got it wrong, the government got it wrong,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“People will call me all types of names, they really will,” he added. “They will criticize me for getting it wrong, that’s human. I mean, I’m human. Surely no-one is infallible, no governments are infallible.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Sins of a Few\u201d<\/b><\/h2>\n

His decision was praised, naturally, by the greyhound racing industry<\/a>, which had complained that the proposed ban had “turned everyone’s life into turmoil,” in the words of one trainer to the BBC.<\/p>\n

“There is no evidence that suggests that wrongdoing is part of systemic culture or part of the activities of the vast majority of decent, hard-working participants within this industry,\u201d Brenton Scott of the Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association, told ABC. “It would be wrong to penalize on a collective punishment basis the majority, for the sins of a few.”<\/p>\n

But Baird was criticized by animal rights groups and opposition politicians alike. NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley claimed the Premier\u2019s credibility was now in tatters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian state of New South Wales has dramatically reversed a ban on greyhound racing, as the state Premier Mike Baird claimed this week that he\u2019d \u201cgot it wrong\u201d and that the sport deserved a \u201csecond chance.\u201d The decision to ban the practice was handed down\u00a0in July in the wake of a government investigation that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":40867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew South Wales U-turns on Greyhound Racing Ban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New South Wales Premier Mike Baird\u2019s abrupt reversal of greyhound racing ban has drawn criticism from animal rights groups and opposition politicians.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New South Wales U-turns on Greyhound Racing Ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New South Wales Premier Mike Baird\u2019s abrupt reversal of greyhound racing ban has drawn criticism from animal rights groups and opposition politicians.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-12T23:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-12T20:21:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mike-Baird_Photos-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1163\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/\",\"name\":\"New South Wales U-turns on Greyhound Racing Ban\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mike-Baird_Photos-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-12T23:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-12T20:21:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\"},\"description\":\"New South Wales Premier Mike Baird\u2019s abrupt reversal of greyhound racing ban has drawn criticism from animal rights groups and opposition politicians.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-south-wales-u-turns-greyhound-racing-ban\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mike-Baird_Photos-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mike-Baird_Photos-3.jpg\",\"width\":1163,\"height\":652,\"caption\":\"Mike Baird said he had been wrong to ban greyhound racing and that the industry needed a chance to prove itself. 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