I can never keep up with the new titles they use. I believe there is a manager at GRNSW for 'People, Culture and Performance'. No idea what they do.

Well Kev I was talking to a GBOTA member today and he was/is Absolutely wrapped with B.Scott and said if It was not for him greyhounds would now be gone and there was nothing that I could say to change his mind to the point that he got fairly cranky.
Me, I cannot stand the clown.

To put this in perspective, in 2013 and 2014, there were 355 and 327 litters in the same three month period where there were approximately 7 000 - 7 500 pups born.

It sounds to me that they are rationalizing a decision for a puppy bond rather than analyzing the data.

25 x 10 x 8 = 2000pups just to fill 1 weeks racing, we know not all dogs race week to week (injuries, programming, seasonal spells, trainer availability).

2000
less natural deaths (disease, rearing, snakes etc)
less pre race debut injuries (paddock, breakin, pretraining)
less non chasers or those not fast enough to make track
less those sold interstate
etc
etc

New tracks and welfare MAY increase race careers by a few % IMO

so how many is left in the racing pool to sustain current racing just in NSW ?

with them focusing on reducing pups bred.

Who gets a license to bred and under what conditions ? How long does it take to qualify and implement the new policy

How does that effect current racing and participants that spend 000s in advance of goods, services and infrastructure ?

Unfortunately, we've all been predicting track closures and reduction in field sizes and we're now starting to regularly see the latter. However, you won't see track closures before the March 2019 Election.

You know, I first thought the `Puppy Bonus' was an incentive to breed as per the questionnaire and wrote to the former Deputy CEO of GRNSW with an idea.

The point has been made to GWIC that hiring all ex-police is not a good idea. I've heard some people refer to GRNSW as the "ex-police officers benefit fund".

I was looking through the Act and there is a whole section on inspectors. I am not sure whether it is referring to the current compliance officers or if we are going to have yet another lot of people who are going to police us.

These are some sections from the Act relating to them I find worrying

73 Power to enter premises
(1) An inspector may enter any premises at any reasonable time.
(2) Entry may be effected under this Act by an inspector with the aid of such other inspectors or police officers as the inspector considers necessary and with the use of reasonable force.

Does this mean that they can continue to jump fences of people's properties when they aren't at home as long as it is a reasonable time? (I have heard from a few people this is happening.)

68 Appointment and identification of inspectors
(4) In the course of exercising the functions of an inspector under this Act, the inspector must, if requested to do so by any person affected by the exercise of any such function, produce the inspectors identification for inspection by the person unless to do so would defeat the purpose for which the functions are to be exercised.

Under what circumstances would it defeat the purpose of an inspector to produce their ID? Are they going to conduct covert operations?

13.59 The reduction of GRNSWs racing schedules from 1,139 to 593 raises significant issues in relation to the financial viability of the industry.

and

13.63 GRNSWs consideration of the possibility of limiting the number of race meetings to 593 proceeded on the assumption that this would occur as part of a track rationalisation process. It assumed a conservative number of club closures, leaving a club network of 14 tracks.

254 Ibid, [51]. Apart from Gosford, GRNSW has not confirmed which clubs will remain. In Chapter 26, the Commission concluded
that, although it has not been acknowledged by GRNSW in its submissions to the Commission, it is certain that GRNSW plans to
cease all non-TAB racing in this State.

Me: You know what you have to do .........