Horse Riders Party
Registered Officer: Debra Avis
Address: 70 Princes Highway, Helensburgh NSW 2508
Party Objectives: The party seeks to regain and retain traditional access to National Parks and other public land for horse riders and other responsible users by being a force in and influencing NSW politics.
What will your support help provide?
* A fair deal for horse riders who enrich and continue an important part of Australia's culture and show us a way of life, which is being threatened in these days of environmental political correctness.
* The opportunity for following generations to experience and enjoy part of Australia's cultured and natural heritage.
* Recognition by governments and bureaucrats that horse riders are responsible land users and should be recognised as such.
* A voice for horse riders and the horse industry on issues of concern threatening the recreational horse industry, including access to public land, insurance, public liability, road safety, local and state government regulations, and the attempts to displace riding and Pony Clubs from their grounds.
Horse riders party objectives
The horse riders party has been formed to provide a voice for recreational horse riders in the Parliament of NSW by either direct representation or through other elected parties.
A voice in Parliament to:
1. protect and promote the cultural and heritage values of horse riding and carriage driving in the Australian Bush;
2. protect and secure the Bicentennial National Trail;
3. amend the Wilderness Act to allow horse riding as an appropriate recreation in Wilderness areas;
4. create recreational horse riding and carriage driving opportunities over travelling stock routes and reserves;
5. support measures to limit the liability of commercial horse riding establishments;
6. ensure that recreational horse riding and carriage driving are accepted as an appropriate use of land under the control of the NSW Department of Environment & Conservation ("DEC") and National Parks & Wildlife Service ("NPWS") and other public land in the control of other government agencies and corporations;
7. ensure riding clubs retain their access to public land in the control of Councils, State and Federal Governments or their agencies;
8. ensure funding be made available through Commonwealth and State Governments to establish an administration office for recreational horse riders and for the salary of a coordinator and an environmental office in respect of recreational horse riding and carriage driving and to promote the interest of Trail riders, Endurance riders, Pony Clubs, Carriage drivers and other horse riding groups;
9. ensure that the Department of Sport & Recreation accepts recreational horse riding and carriage driving as a recreational pursuit for funding purposes and to gain access to other resources of the Department;
10. oppose the extreme greens and others who want to prohibit recreational horse riding and carriage driving from land under the control and management of NSW DEC and NPWS and other government agencies;
11. encourage an inquiry into NSW NPWS.
The horse riders party will be the voice of horse riders in the NSW Parliament