Rspca Tasmania

[Steve]

How is it possible for the government to sack the RSPCA Board?

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/06/27/382270_tasmania-news.html

TASMANIAN union boss Kevin Harkins has told a parliamentary hearing the Government needs to sack the RSPCA board and start again.

The Unions Tasmania secretary accepted an offer to provide testimony to the hearing prompted by the Government's $400,000 emergency bail-out of RSPCA Tasmania last year after he was criticised by RSPCA-hired investigator James O'Neill a week ago.

Mr O'Neill, an industrial investigator hired to examine then-RSPCA chief executive Ben Sturges' conduct in the lead-up his sacking last year, told the same committee Mr Harkins had warned him to "be careful, everyone is watching" on two occasions last year.

But Mr Harkins said while he did say that it was for good reasons, including that "Mr O'Neill had never carried out an investigation of this type and had no training in the area of investigation" and that he had "no faith any investigation carried out by Mr O'Neill could in any way be objective".

Mr Harkins said criticism of the board itself should not be considered criticism of the RSPCA in general.

The inquiry continues.

Edited June 27, 2013 by Steve

[tdierikx]

The government may not be able to sack them, but they can withdraw any funding until they are replaced...

T.

[Maddy]

If state and local government simply withdrew funding, there'd be no need to sack anyone- the RSPCA Tas would be forced to fold. Frankly, I don't think that'd be a bad thing, either. They are notorious for wasting money (on anything but animals) and not seeming to give much of a sh*t about animals generally, fobbing people off at the expense of animal welfare.

A good example was the wallaby hit and injured by a car only a few hundred metres from their shelter down south. Did they send someone out to grab the wallaby? Not their problem, apparently. The RSPCA is for all creatures, great and small except wallabies. And brushtail possums. And pitbulls. And feral or unowned kittens/cats. And greyhounds. And horses. And other livestock. And injured native wildlife. And so on.

typo

Edited July 4, 2013 by Hardy's Angel