The following submission is an excerpt from the web from Mal Davies. It must be noted that the RSPCA sued Mal Davies for defamation over his story on Ruth Downey which involved a woman whose cattle was shot by the RSPCA in 2007 He was served by email and facebook for the court action and did not attend. The justice awarded the RSPCA $100,000 in damages.
“The Ruth Downey Inquisition” Published & Copywrite by SOS-NEWS 2009 http://www.sosnews.org. Author Mal Davies.
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Submission No 18
INQUIRY INTO THE RSPCA RAID ON THE WATERWAYSWILDLIFE PARK
Organisation: Save Our Snowy Organisation
Name: Mr Mal Davies
Position: Chairman
Date received: 21/06/2010
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 1
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
Inquiry into the RSPCA raid on the Waterways Wildlife Park
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Submission By:
Mal Davies (Chairman)
Save Our Snowy Organisation (unincorporated – 2004)
PO Box 597 Bankstown
NSW 1885
Email: maldavies@sosnews.org
Phone: 0405-409-493
This submission tenders our inquiries and findings concerning
the RSPCA-NSW inquiry of the Gunnedah Waterways Wild Life
Park.
It further includes a synopsis associated to our ongoing
investigations into the operations of the RSPCA-NSW that has
attracted public concern by the people of New South Wales.
Content:
Background – pages 2 – 4
Facts – pages 5 – 7
Related Issues – Pages 8
Argument – page 9 – 10
Recommendations – page 11
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 2
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
BACKGROUND
Save Our Snowy Group was started in 2003 after the massive bushfire
that threatened our heritage and our farmers of the Snowy Mountains
in both NSW and Victoria.
Developing a website network – http://www.sosnews.org – by a nucleus of
concerned Australians with expertise from farming, computer science
& engineering, forensic investigations, and agricultural science. This
group has grown from several hundred subscribing computers to in
excess of 68,000 computers on the present mailing list.SOS News is
supported by a current average of 58,000 visits to our website
network daily.
The group functions entirely through the efforts of volunteers, whose
credentials, expertise and integrity have maintained this public news
service for nearly nine years.
Alerted to a bullyboy side of the RSPCA Australia- wide in 2007, SOSNews
embarked on an inquiry to substantiate the allegation we had
received.
This public organisation of dedicated volunteers hold animal welfare as
the main purpose of existence for the RSPCA, however the
inspectorate area of law enforcement is most certainly not of that
virtue and we found management lacking in ethics as well.
Isolating our inquiries to RSPCA-NSW we have recorded interviews and
have compiled data base information (held offshore for security) of
some 25 incidents, including the Gunnedah Koala case. All this
information relates to what can only be called”RSPCA-NSW
Inspectorate agenda driven so called animal cruelty inquiries”
I refer to the Parliament Of New South Wales hansard dated 21 June
2004, where Senator Ms LEE RHIANNON made this speech to the
house.
RSPCA OPERATIONS
Page: 12529
Ms LEE RHIANNON [10.18 p.m.]: On 21 June 2004 a Four
Corners program suggested that nationally vested farming
interest groups controlled the RSPCA and manipulated its
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 6
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
FACTS
Our attention was drawn to an RSPCA-NSW Inspectorate raid on the
Gunnedah Waterways Wildlife Park 3rd February 2010. A telephone
call to SOS-NEWS prompted Veterinarian Tina Clifton of Gunnedah
Veterinary Hospital, who had read about our ongoing investigation into
the RSPCA-NSW Inspectorate and Management to speak of her
concern with the RSPCA-NSW.
Recording this interviewing authorised by Tina Clifton, she informed
me that Mrs Nancy Small had for some 30 years operated a Wildlife
Park in Gunnedah which had outgrown its original location and is now
located in the township and is known as Waterways Wildlife Park.
She further commented that Nancy is one of those incredible people
that will get up at 4am in the morning to attend an injured koala on
the side of the road, so there are very few people in Gunnedah who
have not had something to do with Nancy. As a result nobody will
believe that there was any major issue that warranted these eight
koalas being seized (by the RSPCA-NSW).
Tina explained she has some 5 years experience with Koala’s, the
other Veterinarian at Gunnedah Veterinary Hospital is David Amos, has
some 30 years experience with Koala’s. The hospital enjoys a working
relationship with Nancy Small by taking any injured wildlife she has
needing care, they in return send wildlife to Nancy Small that need
rehabilitation.
Tina explained the Gunnedah koalas are very different to the coastal
koala such as:-
1. Coastal koala’s do not go to ground in hot weather but the
Gunnedah koala do, and as this time (February 2010) there have
been days and days of over 40 degree heat this has been
happening.
2. Further because koala’s in Gunnedah are on a much rougher
more fibre diet they wear their teeth more that the coastal
koala, hence their shorter life span.
3. It is also well documented that the Gunnedah koala lose weight
in the summer more than coastal koala.
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 7
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
4. The natural population of koala in Gunnedah is increasing and is
one of the only places in NSW where this is occurring.
5. Gunnedah is totally Chlamydia free of that disease.
6. Gunnedah is known as the Koala Capital of the World which host
a very strong healthy huge koala population.
Tina Simpson, discussing the conversation with Nancy Small (owner of
Waterways Wildlife Park) about the subject RSPCA-NSW raid on 3rd
February 2010, stated that Nancy related that RSPCA-NSW Inspector
Kylie Prowse said “these animals were stressed”, indicating to
several Koalas gathered around the base of a tree.
This suggests the RSPCA-NSW Inspector/s were oblivious to this
natural, well documented behaviour for Gunnedah koala to exhibit by
going to ground during extreme heat.
Tina Simpson further stated, “the only reason they (RSPCA-NSW)
seized them (8 koalas) is because they say they were stressed
which is such a loose incredibly undefined term, and I think
that if you are going to take eight (8) koalas, catch them,
anesthetise them or sedate them and drag them away in a hot
car for 4 four hours I can’t think of what more that that would
stress an animal more”
In further recorded conversation with veterinarian Tina Simpson
Several weeks before the RSPCA-NSW raid on Waterways Wildlife Park
owner Nancy Small had a hip replacement. While in hospital RSPCANSW
Inspector Kylie Prowse visited the wildlife park to check on a
complaint about a Dingo. She stopped at the Koala enclosure and
remarked to a staff member – “how healthy the Koalas were, she
took photos and stated they were to show her niece because
she would love such healthy koala’s”.
Tina further stated, “the RSPCA-NSW inspectors Prowse and Matt
French arrived at the Waterways Wildlife Park on February 3rd
2010 with the channel 7 -RSPCA Animal Rescue – film crew and
eight plastic clothes baskets, just the right number for the
enclosures koala population”.
Confirmation was received the eight koalas seized by RSPCA-NSW
were taken to Port Macquarie Koala Preservation Society of N.S.W Inc.
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 8
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
They quote a koala hospital from the website –
http://www.koalahospital.org.au/ – is run and serviced by volunteers,
far removed from a Veterinary Hospital in Gunnedah hosting 30 years
experience with Koalas.
Further inquiries revealed the Port Macquarie Koala Preservation
Society of N.S.W Inc (Port Macquarie Koala Hospital) is open 365 days
a year and visitors are welcome at all times during the day. This
organisation has been operating for about 37 years without an “Animal
Exhibitors License”.
In New South Wales the display of animals is regulated by the
Exhibited Animals Protection Act (EAPA).The Act was passed in 1986.
It pertains to the exhibition of all vertebrate animals, irrespective of
whether they are native, exotic or domestic. The Act currently falls
within the portfolio of the Minister for Primary Industries (Steve Whan)
and the Director General of NSW Department of Primary Industries (Dr
Richard Sheldrake) is the licensing authority.
We find interesting, just weeks after taking the Gunnedah koalas and
attracting massive public concern to the RSPCA-NSW handling of their
inquiry, the “Koala Preservation Society of N.S.W Inc” applied to the
DPI to grant an “Animal Exhibitors License”.
Save Our Snowy Submission to the NSW Government – – – Page 9
GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No5
RELATED ISSUES
Our inquires into the RSPCA-NSW have uncovered bullying and
harassment of targeted people by the RSPCA-NSW inspectorate and
management that aligns with the witness testimony we gathered of
their raid on Waterways Wildlife Park in Gunnedah.
Public concerns over several years directed to SOS-NEWS refer to
RSPCA-NSW Inspectorate raids in rural areas upon NSW farmers,
many predominantly aged and single females, displays an alarming
pattern that Mrs Nancy Small of Waterways Wildlife Park Gunnedah fits
into.
I make mention to related case files we have investigated such as Mrs
Ruth Downey (73), Ms Jan Richardson (68), Mrs Linda Hall (85) all
prosecuted by the RSPCA-NSW using a Private Law firm which includes
then RSPCA-NSW President/Solicitor Andrew Wozniak and
Director/Barrister Paul O’Donnell, and their expert witness on
veterinary subjects, Dr Peter Wright, current President of that
organisation. .
May I direct the committee to the e-book book attached I published at
SOS-NEWS, detailing the RSPCA-NSW agenda directed investigation,
and subsequent prosecution of Mrs Ruth Downey. This contains
evidence RSPCA-NSW have not refuted or questioned which elaborates
and collaborates concerns of the not only the Gunnedah koala raid but
the integrity and operation of RSPCA-NSW Inspectorate and
Management.
Investigations that have been and are ongoing by SOS-NEWS into the
RSPCA-NSW so far uncovered an entrenched power greed driven area
within management and their inspectorate department that operate
outside accountability under clandestine control members of that
organisation are oblivious of. Our extensive inquiries substantiated
with irrefutable evidence is available at anytime to this committee.