Have Your Say: Stop the NSW Hunting Bill
This inquiry is our opportunity to present evidence against this dangerous, reckless, and politically-contrived Bill for those with vested interests.
The Game and Feral Animal Legislation Amendment (Conservation Hunting) Bill 2025 is now under parliamentary inquiry by the NSW Legislative Councils Standing Committee on State Development. This inquiry provides a crucial opportunity for the community to submit evidence, expert opinion and facts about why this legislation would spell disaster for animals, public safety, and genuine conservation efforts.
Your submission can help stop this dangerous legislation.
The Committee is accepting public submissions for their inquiry. Your submission will become part of the official parliamentary record and help inform the Committee's findings and recommendations to the NSW Government
Parliamentary inquiries accept submissions from individuals, organisations, and experts regardless of where you live.
Why your submission matters
Parliamentary inquiries rely on public perspectives to understand community expectations and gather evidence. Your submission will:
- Demonstrate strong community opposition to this Bill
- Provide the Committee with evidence about key animal welfare, public safety, and conservation concerns
- Help inform the Committee's findings and recommendations to the NSW Government
- Influence the Committee and become part of the permanent Parliamentary record
Even if you live outside NSW, your submission is valuable. This legislation could set a dangerous precedent for other animal welfare matters, including in other states and territories.
What the evidence shows
Contemporary scientific evidence is conclusive. It proves that:
Bounties and recreational hunting are ineffective
Studies demonstrate that bounties remove less than 10% of target populations and that recreational hunting is ineffective.
Bounty schemes waste public money
Bounty programs cost approx. $264 per animal killed, with no measurable environmental benefit, and are historically "riddled with fraud".
Systematic wildlife slaughter is already legal
NSW has issued nearly 17,000 "Licence to Harm" permits since 2017, killing almost 1.9 million protected animals, such as kangaroos, wallabies, flying-foxes, emus, and native birds.
"Conservation" claims are hypocritical
The NSW Premier and SFF claim this Bill will protect native species, yet nearly 1,000 native animals are already threatened with extinction in NSW - a 50% increase in just 10 years.
Animal welfare concerns
The RSPCA explicitly opposes recreational hunting due to the "inherent and inevitable pain and suffering caused" to animals. There will be no animal welfare oversight, including species type, and therefore limited enforcement of animal welfare laws.
