Dear Readers (23-11-21)

In my last update I informed you that I would be writing to the NSW Minister for Agriculture.

Below is the email to him and one aspect of his response.

He has made no attempt to answer the questions I have put to him, and I believe the contents of my letter to him are very pertinent.

The following sentence from the Hon Marshall’s response is what I strongly suspect to be a demonstration of bankrupt behaviour from this politician - `I am unable to offer you any further information than that I have already provided’. The Hon Marshall has (to date) not answered the questions I have asked of him. I apologise for not being able to publish his full reply but there seem to be formatting barriers in his response that have not made this possible.

The photo shows once more the awful state of Camp Kitty when the RSPCA NSW was stating that `there were no welfare issues,’ with a dead cat lying in the yard, and much rubbish.

I shall be writing to others about this matter, and I have already started on that task.

Dear Hon Marshall (3-11-21)

I write to you once more regarding the behaviour of the RSPCA NSW. In your correspondence of 10TH. Aug 2021 you suggest that I contact a person in the Dept of Primary Industries, and also the RSPCA NSW. However as the Responsible Minister for administering POCTA I feel it is most important that you are aware of every development. Public funds are being granted to the RSPCA NSW and it is your responsibility to make sure that those funds are properly administered.

On 10 Aug 2021, I received an email from a reader of my petition on change.org called `Tell the RSPCA NSW that this is cruel’. The reader had directly contacted the new owners of the premises previously called Camp Kitty, and that reader was told that the only cat left at those premises had been euthanized on 12th. Feb 2021. I ask, why did the RSPCA NSW state that `the cat is being appropriately cared for’ when it was dead? Also, these new owners have stated that the cat was fed every 2nd day. That was in breach of POCTA. So again, why did the RSPCA NSW say it was being appropriately cared for?

On many occasions I have informed you that the RSPCA NSW was allowing the rights of the solitary cat left at CK to be disregarded, and issues that I have brought to your attention in numerous correspondences seem to have been ignored. I wish to record that on several occasions you have not complied with the NSW Correspondence Policy and I have had to inform the Premier’s Office in order to get a reply, but those replies that I do get do not answer the questions asked!

I now ask that you fully investigate all that has occurred over many years at Camp Kitty and deal with all the issues that you have previously ignored.

This is now most important as such a cloud has developed over the workings of the NSW State Parliament and now the involvement of Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC). The Ministry of Agriculture (under your leadership, and under the previous incumbent) seem to have ignored taxpayers’ demands for accountability over many years.

I further ask, if it is established that the RSPCA NSW has not been honest with its endeavours as enforcers of POCTA, that you disenfranchise its rights to enforce POCTA. Also, you pursue the RSPCA NSW to get a refund of Taxpayer Monies that have been awarded it over the many years that it has not been enforcing its’ obligations. That will avoid the possibility of the stain of corruption existing.

I thank you in anticipation of receiving a full and frank response within the Correspondence Guidelines.

Yours truthfully

Keith Climpson