Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, introduced his private members bill, Interactive Gambling Amendment (Ending Online Wagering on Greyhound Racing) Bill 2025.
“My private members bill would remove the exemption for online wagering on greyhound racing in the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This would end online wagering on greyhound racing and, because online betting props up the industry’s profitability, hasten the demise of an already declining industry,” Mr Wilkie said.
“Australia has the ignominious honour of hosting the largest greyhound racing industry in the world, and has around half the world’s remaining operational greyhound tracks. Australian’s themselves account for roughly 70 per cent of all bets placed on dog racing worldwide. And all the while dogs are suffering, with 99 dogs having died and 9,663 having been injured on tracks in Australia this year alone. “Online wagering is propping up this deeply unpopular and cruel industry and it is beyond time to ban it.”