Following is a press release explaining why Dreamworld reneged on their decision to allow NIOA from holding their Christmas party at Tiger Island - a commercial venture exploiting caged animals for profit.
Anyone with an opinion on this can contact Dreamworld direct and let them know.
There's no excuse for ignorance and descrimination.

6th October 2010
To whom it may concern
With regards to Mr Nioa’s enquiry to hold an event on our premises, Dreamworld has expressed that
we are more than happy to accommodate his request in any location at both Dreamworld and
WhiteWater World with the exclusion of Tiger Island and the Australian Wildlife Experience.
Dreamworld acknowledges that the Australian Firearm industry is a legal and respected industry that
is notably undertaking many works to ensure the safety of Australian citizens of which we are
supportive.
We respect the committed work of the firearm industry and also respect the work of conservation
organisations with which we partner, and of the dedicated staff that work within our wildlife
departments. For more than 25 years, Dreamworld has been operating a wildlife facility that educates
our guests on the plight of Australian native species and actively works both within Australia and
internationally, to deliver a conservation message for the protection of endangered animals. We have
established strong alliances across a wide range of wildlife organisations and it is important for us to
protect this relationship and ensure we fulfil our common objectives to promote conservation through
education and ongoing support of the species we manage.
Tiger Island was developed to inspire guests and the intention is to activate a conservation message
to support the survival and longevity of these species. This includes the formation of our own
Dreamworld Conservation Fund.
In addition, Dreamworld also provides support and funding to ensure the survival of endangered
species and partners with Australian non-profit organisations such as the Australian Koala Foundation
and Save the Bilby Fund. These financial donations are enthusiastically contributed to by Dreamworld
and guests who trust the conservation ethic of Dreamworld. We believe that these guests, along with
our partner organisations, would consider it inappropriate to grant the use of our Tiger Island facility to
an association whose website shows exotic animals being killed in their natural habitat for sport and
trophy. It is for this reason that we have declined to host Mr Nioa’s event at Tiger Island and the offer
to host this event in another area of our park remains open.
Once again, I would like to reinforce that Dreamworld supports the legal ownership and use of fire
arms within Australia and as previously offered, we would be delighted to host Mr Nioa’s event in any
other location within Dreamworld and WhiteWater World.
We look forward to being able to reach a conclusion on this matter and hopefully all concerned can
respect our position.
Kind regards
Noel Dempsey
Chief Executive Officer
Dreamworld & WhiteWater World

Does this mean that Dreamworld will refuse to take booking from any Japanese tourists because DW have a problem with whaling?

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Originally posted by Sambar 9.3:
Does this mean that Dreamworld will refuse to take booking from any Japanese tourists because DW have a problem with whaling?

Only if they post photos of whaling on their website.

At last somebody NIOA could not screw.

I couldn't agree more with you Bob, but it still leaves a sour taste in my mouth the selective hypocrisy that Dreamworld display here.

regards Jacko

NOIA refuse to do business with anybody who does not have a shop front , It doesn't matter that you have a dealers licence they refuse to have anything to do with you ,I believe they also discriminate in who they will give accounts to and who they refuse .It's not like we have to many choices as to which wholesaler we can buy from. NOIA are one of the best reasons to shop overseas IMHO , good to see NOIA refused service ,maybe they can take a good hard look at their own practices.

Darwinmauser; you are correct there about the shop front demands etc. A friend of mine went through all those things with Nioa recently. I believe he had no trouble with Robert Nioa himself but more with his senior staff.

I still don't like that Dreamworld used tree-hugging whale-rolling "ethics" to refuse the booking. They may be entitled to legally refuse anyone but it sends a biased message to the public as usual and their reasoning has no basis in logic or fact. Predictably the media sides with Dreamworld and paints Nioa and hunters as murderers.