Victoria could save nearly $500m over 10 years by scrapping greyhound racing, estimates show | Greyhound racing

According to the independent analysis, the Victoria government can save almost half billion dollars if Tazmania follows the greyhound races in the province.

A policy cost by the Parliament Budget Office (PBO), which will be released on Thursday, estimates that the government will save $ 451.6 million between 2025-26 and 2035-36 if the government subsidized the Greyhound race and closes the sector.

The figure is now based on a decrease of $ 687.4 million in expenditures for ten years, for ten years, as the Victorian people can no longer bet on the gray races held in the state.

Analysis, the government in 2024, the purebred and the harness of the harness of the entire Victoria race industry “increasing the ongoing support”, he said.

This was a higher consumption tax score with a financing title deed, which was increased from 10% to 15%, with a financing title deed that provides the race for half of the income and a financing deed that provides an annual $ 90 million.

PBO analysis, existing racing club or racing runway licenses or its Betting contract with Tabcorp.

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The report was assigned by Georgie Purcell, a deputy of Animal Justice Party, who said that the Victoria government was “not surprised” but “absolutely terrified” to find out how much the government has reduced the industry.

“This government’s hundreds of millions of dollars supporting the Greyhound racing industry The new woman cannot finance the operation of crisis shelters– GONSKİ cannot meet its requirementsIt is clear that not being able to finance mental health services sufficiently and not being able to support regional Victorians correctly. ”

According to Greyhounds’ Protection Coalition, which collected the reports of public officials after the meetings, 29 dogs died on the race tracks in Victoria this year.

Purcell, Tazmania, in the meantime, a breed of a dog of the year after the killing on July 28, made a principled and ethical decision, “he said.

“Even the liberals perform better than them in animal protection than the Victoria Workers’ Government certainly says a lot about the direction.”

Tasmanian Prime Minister Jeremy Rockliff announced on Sunday that the liberal government would end financing for Greyhound races in the state until 2029 and effectively surrounded the industry.

In May, a report of Economist Saul Eslake to the Grayhound industry of the Grayhound industry found that the state government financed the sport of the state government as “more generous than all other judicial powers and 12.70 dollars per population at 2023-24”. This includes 80% of the income from the consumption tax point to the race.

Meslake, Guardian Australia Greyhound, “he likes to shape himself as an industry”, but in most states “public bag” is based.

“We do not talk about the football industry, basketball industry or tennis industry,” he said.

“The race likes to call itself an industry, so perhaps the claims should be tested in the same way when another industry wants a study paper. It should be subject to the same meticulous examination.”

Victoria Race Minister Anthony Carbins said that on Monday, he had no plan to end the Greyhound race in the state, and that the Tasmanian government announced as an attempt to guarantee the support of Crossbench MPs after not winning the majority in the last state election.

Carbines, “Nobody in Tasmania is safe. Multiple to create everyone to the sea,” he said.

Greyhound Racing has produced $ 850ma dollars in economic activity and employed about 5,000 people in a full -time study in Victoria.

“The government in Victoria supports Greyhound races, Car said Carbines.

Greyhound Race Victoria General Manager Stuart Laing said in a statement that Victoria’s economy would be “significantly worse,” without industry.

“What is not included in the PBO cost is direct income taxes and taxes, such as payrolls and corporate taxes and net GST and Fringe benefit tax, land tax and other taxes produced by enterprises working in Greyhound races, are direct income taxes for those produced from participants who spend money in gray races”.

In 2018, Eylem banned Greyhound race. In 2016, New South Wales proposed a ban before a recoil after a reconstruction after then before Mike Baird. Last year, after the claims of widespread animal abuse, an investigation was called about the industry in the state.

This article was changed on August 14, 2025 to add a statement from Greyhound Racing Victoria after the publication.