Opposition says Minns voted against committee examining NSW Shooters and Fishers ‘right to hunt’ bill

The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has continued to walk away from a controversial bill from the Shooters and Fishers party establishing a right to hunt on public lands, while also claiming that Labor backed it being sent to a parliamentary committee.

On Tuesday, Minns claimed Labor had supported the referral of the conservation hunting bill for an inquiry and indicated he would look at the committee’s report, but Hansard showed Labor opposed the referral.

Minns said he had met gun control campaigner Walter Mikac and explained that the proposed legislation “was not our bill”.

“It’s an independent bill, anyone can put a bill to parliament, and all parties, not just the Labor party , but every political party, said we’ll put it off to a committee to examine it, but there are so