Dear Readers

Just to confirm that I have emailed the new Minister for Agriculture NSW.(see email details below). It may be up to a month to get a response. Hopefully the new Minister will be much more caring and effective than the previous Liberal Ministers.

The photo shows the skeleton of a dead cat which was lying in full view from my property.

Regular readers of this petition site will know that cats would fight and if they died other starving cats would eat their corpses!

Just absolutely disgusting and shameful that all the RSPCA NSW would do would say that `their were no welfare issues’.

Dear Tara Moriarty (Minister for Agriculture NSW)

Prior to the recent State Election I emailed all the MP’s seeking election. That email contained the following information (in italics), -

 If elected to Parliament could you please act to ensure that the elected governing body takes responsibility for how it spends tax payer monies?

For the last 8 years I have ran an online petition on Change.org called `Tell the RSPCA NSW that this is cruel!’ This petition was in protest against the RSPCA NSW failing to properly investigate the awful treatment that approximately 200 cats suffered at the hands of our neighbour when we lived in Cowra. The RSPCA receiving about $8 million dollars per year from the Government, and unfortunately the Government has consistently refused to investigate the issues that I brought to their attention.

When I first brought the cruelty situation to the attention of the RSPCA they just told me that `there were no welfare issues’, despite having been provided with many photos to prove that there were many welfare issues. The RSPCA even stated that to my State MP, Katrina Hodgkinson, and to tell such an untruth to my then state representative was reprehensible.

So once again I ask that you do not just stand idly by and let the governing party spend monies without any accountability for those monies. That occurred under the previous Premier and was a national disgrace.

In conclusion I would add that the RSPCA NSW is a public company, in contrast to the other RSPCA’s throughout Australia, which are charities. If the RSPCA NSW is indifferent to animal suffering and chooses not to take action in preventing cruelty issues that is their decision, however for taxpayer monies to be donated to that organisation, and not to ask that organisation for an explanation is wrong, and could raise the possibility of corruption in government.

As you are now the Minister for Agriculture would you please assure me that the attitude of the new NSW Government will change and you will now make the RSPCA NSW accountable for its actions (or lack of) when it comes to enforcing cruelty issues? Will you also ask the RSPCA NSW to explain why they allowed approximately 200 cats to suffer for so long, and would only state that `there were no welfare issues’?

You will now be the fourth Minister for Agriculture that I have written to. The previous ones were just indifferent and would never take any action to rectify the very poor performance of the RSPCA NSW. Please just ask the RSPCA NSW to explain and be accountable for the public funds they receive!

I can if required send you many photos and facts about the RSPCA NSW that may surprise you.

As the Administrator of POCTA I thank you for the anticipated help you will give to ensure that the RSPCA NSW is accountable.

Regards, 

Keith Climpson.