| Trevor, Post-Alliance industry members were told that was as far as things could go and so it would not be worth following up the legal (or McHugh) problems. We never heard exactly what or why. At the same time there was also much talk about state breeding restrictions but, in public, that fizzled out. It smacks of some sort of "gentleman's agreement" behind the scenes, just as may have occurred with the potential legal challenges by Alliance. Still, we are only guessing. We then ended up with a Reform Panel (a misnomer, if I have ever heard one) where there was only one person with greyhound racing experience. He may well have been pushing the case for participants (we don't know due to confidentiality provisions) but the outcome was nevertheless unhelpful for greyhound people - ie excessive regulation. In total, aside from the Macquarie St march, no-one has protested formally and officially. Borsak is an exception (and worthwhile) but that amounts to playing on their ground and by their rules. It is nowhere near enough. He needs much more to hang his hat on. The point is that when someone - government or whoever - pulls the rug from under you it is essential to make a noise properly and legally. That includes everything from improper or excessive regulations to administrative shortcomings to decisions which have no genuine backing to incompetent behaviour. And you do it at every step. Never let up. Ricky Stuart has got the entire NRL organisation in a tizzy because it failed to reasonably control employee errors or to implement a better system. As a result, things will change. No noise - no change. The playing surfaces at (then) Etihad stadium, Lang Park, a crossing at Doomben, the entire surface at Eagle Farm, a jockeys' strike at Bathurst gallops and the Kensington track at Randwick all got attention because people made a noise. If you do 80 kph in a school zone you get thumped while the vast majority of drivers continue normally. Miners mounted a big publicity campaign to protest a supertax being applied by Canberra. The miners won. It was unfair and counter-productive. GM food production was banned in all states but now they are pulling their heads in because there is absolutely nothing to show that any harm is caused and that many benefits accrue. As for subsidised wind farms and skyrocketing electricity bills ... words fail me. And so it goes on. Always call the bluff.
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Do you have questions about breeding theories? 
