Dear Readers
May I wish you all belated good wishes for the coming year, and I urge you all to continue to fight for better animal rights in NSW. Some have suggested in the past that petitions are useless and do not achieve anything. Unfortunately petitioners will never realise what they have achieved as the people in power will never admit that a petition has influenced them in any way to make changes. However followers of NSW politics will now know that the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon Adam Marshall, the man responsible for administering POCTA (the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act) has lost that portfolio in a Ministerial shake up by the new Premier. I am not sure if the new Agricultural Minister will be any better at the job, but time will tell! I expect that the Hon Marshall had other complaints made against him as well.
Since my last update I have written again to the Premier and informed him of the questions that the Hon Marshall was unwilling to address. I have also written again to Emma Hurst, the Animal Justice Party member who is in the NSW Senate. That is the third time now I have written and not received a response. Some readers have expressed surprised before that correspondence to an Animal Justice Party Senator concerning Animal Welfare matters would be ignored, but that seems to be the case. I shall try again.
I shall continue to fight to make sure that public funds that are paid to organisations such as the RSPCA NSW are accounted for by the politicians that have the power to grant those funds. To do less is to condone possible corruption and I know many readers have fought to make sure that this does not occur, and I thank them for their efforts.
The photo shows the poor animal that must have suffered greatly when it was with about 200 other poor unfortunates, all starving. It was this sight that made me start the petition those 6 years ago, when I was the next door neighbour to Camp Kitty (where all that suffering occurred). It may have starved to death, got ill and died or been killed by some of the other starving cats; I do not know. But I did see other cats eating its corpse. No one in a society like Australia should have to witness such things. When I reported the matter to the RSPCA NSW they could only say that `there were no welfare issues’. To date they have not admitted that there were welfare issues, and very serious ones at that!
Keep up the fight, spread the message, tell your friends, please do all you can to make NSW a more animal friendly State.