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from even the most unlikely of corners: the shooters and any change, especially if that change effects the
fishers. He will need all the luck and support of animal profitable nature of current activity no matter how
welfare advocates across the state and country if he is to detrimental to animals.
have any impact at all.
If Mr Pearson is unable to bring
We have already seen how other about change to those animal
animal welfare advocates have welfare issues that have been on
been sidelined by political argy- the table for over thirty years,
bargy, in the forced resignation of then his tenure will end in 2023
Clover Moore – an outstanding (he has an eight year term in the
advocate for animal welfare and Legislative Council!!) in ignominy
from whom DoggieRescue has and he will be consigned to the
benefitted – to the almost total scrap heap of failed animal
ignoring of anything associated with welfare advocates/policies/good
the Greens’ animal welfare policies intentions.
and of course the hopeless
inadequacies of the animal welfare I for one wish him the greatest of
taskforce of the last parliament success, especially in the
which started with a bang and ended in a whimper. announcement of an inquiry into companion animal
breeding practices across the state, for which Mr
What Mr Pearson will have to grapple with is the influence Pearson has been apparently hand-picked by the
of vested interests when it comes to real change in animal Baird Government – for the sake of all creatures great
welfare. That change will need to be evolutionary rather and small. This is an important and historic inquiry that
than revolutionary. Anything that will “scare the horses” should finally crack down on the puppy cowboys out
will bring on virulent and sometimes covert opposition to there. Cue the vested interest backlash!!

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