SYDNEY (21 October 2025)—Humane World for Animals Australia is applauding City of Sydney Council and Lord Mayor Clover Moore, offering support for the Council's plans for Sydney's Wentworth Park that include bulldozing the site's greyhound racing track.
Recently released imagery detailed plans for Wentworth Park to include sporting fields, picnic areas and parkland. Mayor Moore highlighted that the current site is "dominated" by the greyhound racing track, in an area of inner Sydney that is of critical importance to the NSW Government in meeting its mandated housing targets under the National Housing Accord. The current licence deed for Wentworth Park expires in September 2027.
Humane World for Animals Australia's Director of Campaigns, Nicola Beynon said the move by City of Sydney to scrap the track is warmly welcomed, as Australians have consistently voiced support for the end of greyhound racing.
"City of Sydney and Lord Mayor Clover Moore should be applauded for taking action to convert this important brownfield site and dedicate it to community instead of cruelty," said Ms Beynon.
The imagery of City of Sydney's plans for the site was released only days following a protest outside the greyhound racing track at Wentworth Park which further demonstrated the local community's disdain for the facility and the greyhound racing industry more broadly. The industry has no social license yet benefits from wasted taxpayer money to stay afloat.
Over the last 12 months, a greyhound racing ban has been announced in Tasmania and the City of Newcastle Council moved a motion to support the phase-out of greyhound racing in New South Wales. Internationally Wales and New Zealand have recently committed to greyhound racing bans. Meanwhile, the industry has continued to be plagued with scandal following recent reports of a racing greyhound in the Northern Territory found with methamphetamines and amphetamines in her system, and Queensland's newest greyhound racing facility, The Q, has caused the death of at least 11 greyhounds in less than five months
The nation's most notorious greyhound racing track, at Dapto, NSW, recently closed its doors for the final time—an event that Ms Beynon says is an "emblem" of the end of this cruel industry in Australia. "One by one, states are committing to seeing the end of greyhound racing in Australia. New South Wales remains a global outlier in adopting a timely phase-out but Dapto's retirement was good progress and the final closure of the track's gates at Wentworth Park will be another welcomed, overdue and important step."
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