Resources
Here you will find a range of helpful resources surrounding key issues, in your fight to end greyhound suffering.
30 May 2025
CPG submissions
New Qld Greyhound Rules of Racing In early 2024, Racing Queensland asked for feedback on new Local Rules of Racing.…
Learn more
10 Jan 2025
2025 Australian track deaths and injuries
Image: Two-year-old Shirl’s Rocket was the first dog killed in 2025. She suffered catastrophic leg and spinal injuries. According to…
Learn more
07 Feb 2024
Calculating the true greyhound death toll
In 2023, across Australia, more than 300 dogs were killed and 11,604 were injured due to racing. The greyhound racing industry destroys…
Learn more
01 Feb 2024
Lack of transparency
Clearly, if the racing industry had nothing to hide, it would release animal welfare data freely on a quarterly basis…
Learn more
27 Jan 2024
Poor care standards
While every state has greyhound welfare standards of some kind, they aren't necessarily well enforced.
Learn more
26 Jan 2024
Weak regulation
The RSPCA has long specified wide-ranging regulatory standards for the greyhound racing industry which state governments have failed to implement.
Learn more
26 Jan 2024
Euthanasia
The RSPCA says that due to the racing industry breeding thousands of pups for racing each year, dogs are unavoidably…
Learn more
24 Jan 2024
2024 Australian track deaths and injuries
CPG collates its death and injury data from publicly released stewards’ reports in order to provide the only national data…
Learn more
27 Dec 2023
SA Government Ashton inquiry
After appalling cruelty to greyhounds exposed by activists, this inquiry was established and found extensive regulatory failings in the SA…
Learn more
24 Dec 2023
Racing in heat
The risk of greyhounds developing heat illnesses significantly increases in temperatures above 31C.
Learn more
30 Oct 2023
ABC expose and McHugh report
In 2015, Four Corners broadcast shocking footage of live rabbits and possums being tortured and ripped to pieces in order…
Learn more
04 May 2023
Terminal blood donation
Her racing trainer took her to a local vet to have her euthanased four days after this terrible injury occurred.
Learn more
08 Jan 2023
2023 Australian track deaths and injuries
Greyhound racing is a brutal industry that causes the deaths and injuries of thousands of dogs every year. Despite the…
Learn more
13 Dec 2022
Socialisation rules are not enforced
Community rescue groups reported the majority of greyhounds that come into their care display signs of stress and are fearful…
Learn more
30 Sep 2022
Over-racing
Owners and trainers in Australia can legally over-race greyhounds. This places racing dogs at risk of serious injuries, including fatal…
Learn more
22 Jul 2022
Whole of life tracking
To be safe, greyhounds must be tracked for the whole of their natural life.
Learn more
05 Jul 2022
Greyhound exports
The Australian greyhound export trade has a long and bloody history. Will the new new Federal Government finally take ban…
Learn more
04 Jul 2022
The black hole of Northern Territory greyhound racing
2021 independent report finds that NT greyhound racing "does not have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure best…
Learn more
30 Apr 2022
Exposing children to animal suffering
Research has shown that children forced to witness or participate in acts of animal cruelty can suffer serious psychological consequences.
Learn more
05 Apr 2022
Surgical artificial insemination
SAI extracts the uterus through an incision made in the dog's belly, then injects semen directly into the horns of…
Learn more
10 Jan 2022
2022 Australian track deaths and injuries
Greyhounds suffer thousands of injuries on Australian tracks every year. Bone fractures are common as are muscle injuries. Over-exertion can…
Learn more
06 Nov 2021
Investigation into Tasmanian racing
Following a string of ongoing issues with Tasracing and the Office of Racing Integrity, the Tasmanian state government announced an…
Learn more
04 Nov 2021
Poor rehoming record
CPG's rehoming updates provide the only collated data on how the dog racing industry's rehoming arm (GAP) in each state…
Learn more
13 Jun 2021
The ‘starts’ concept – fudging the stats
Around the world, the greyhound racing industry uses the concept of 'starts' to present its injury and death statistics.
Learn more
02 May 2021
Myth-busting: the 2016 NSW Greyhound Racing Ban
Following the NSW government decision to ban greyhound racing, there was an enormous amount of misinformation generated by the racing…
Learn more
06 Apr 2021
Public opinion – Australians do not support greyhound racing
All surveys of the general population regarding public attitudes to greyhound racing show most Australians do not want greyhound racing…
Learn more
19 Feb 2021
Tabcorp
Tabcorp should work with its industry partners to make beneficial changes for racing dogs and horses.
Learn more
22 Nov 2020
Who bets on greyhounds
"among the 3.2% who bet on greyhounds, the average age is not quite 41—younger than the average Facebook website visitor,…
Learn more
22 Nov 2020
Gambling – a public health issue
According to the latest reports, Australians are the biggest gamblers on earth, losing more than $24 billion in 2017/18.
Learn more
22 Nov 2020
Australia – world’s largest commercial greyhound racing industry
Australia is one of only eight countries in the world with a commercial greyhound racing industry — but it's by…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
Soft penalties for abuse
Published research shows most Australians feel strongly that penalties for animal abuse are too low and this also applies to greyhound…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
The ‘disappeared’
There is a constant oversupply of greyhounds in Australia as the industry breeds far too many dogs in the hope…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
Overbreeding
Not every dog is suited to racing. Around 40% of the 12,000+ greyhounds bred in Australia each year are surplus…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
A life of quiet desperation
Evidence demonstrates that most greyhounds are kept under inadequate conditions that fail to meet their physiological, behavioural and social needs.
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
Doping and drugging
In 2018 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that greyhounds test positive for drugs 10 times more than horses at races.
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
Evidence of cruelty
Greyhound racing is built on the sacrifice of young, healthy greyhounds when they fail to make money for the industry.
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
Optimal track design identified by UTS
In 2017, the University of Technology, Sydney found that “Approximately 80% of all catastrophic and major injuries were caused by…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
What causes the worst injuries
The most catastrophic injuries occur when greyhounds collide at speed of up to 68km per hour, particularly at track bends…
Learn more
21 Nov 2020
A chance to reform
Despite evidence of systemic animal cruelty, the industry was given a chance to reform.
Learn more
20 Nov 2020
Live baiting
Live baiting usually involves attaching a small, helpless live animal to a lure which is then hurled around a track…
Learn more
20 Nov 2020
Industry marketing to communities
The marketing of greyhound racing as "family friendly entertainment" is a very cynical and dangerous ploy by the racing industry.
Learn more
20 Nov 2020
What the animal experts say
RSPCA Australia considers that there are significant and entrenched animal welfare problems inherent in the greyhound racing industry.
Learn more
17 Nov 2020
Contaminated ‘knackery’ meat
Many greyhounds across Australia are fed on a diet of knackery meat. This meat is unfit for human consumption and…
Learn more
31 Mar 2020
Stopping sponsors
Once advised of the problems that are part of greyhound racing, a host of companies have declared they will ensure…
Learn more