{"id":360191,"date":"2026-04-02T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360191\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:13:10","slug":"greyhound-racing-to-end-in-august-as-bill-passes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360191\/","title":{"rendered":"Greyhound racing to end in August as bill passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The agency would be headed by members of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on greyhound racing, Heather Simpson (chairwoman), Murray Johnson and Dr Lindsay Burton, with a fourth member to be appointed later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Peters said the people involved in greyhound racing and the dogs would not be abandoned during the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis bill underpins a structured transition, with funding, agencies and support mechanisms in place. We are not walking away from our responsibilities; we are meeting them head-on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The ban on greyhound racing would take effect from August 1, allowing time for a responsible and carefully managed transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is a good day for greyhounds,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s a rare moment when Parliament speaks with such a strong majority, principled voice. Those moments matter, and this is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/591384\/greyhound-racing-to-end-in-august-as-bill-passes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/591384\/greyhound-racing-to-end-in-august-as-bill-passes\">\u2013 RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The agency would be headed by members of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on greyhound racing, Heather Simpson (chairwoman),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,642,16574,8127,79635,78,20513,6722,111,43,139,69,51627,45641,6729,3512,1361,61,41653,1533,6728],"class_list":["post-360191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-august","tag-bill","tag-end","tag-greyhound","tag-in","tag-legislation","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passes","tag-passing","tag-peters","tag-racing","tag-that","tag-to","tag-welcoming","tag-will","tag-winston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}