Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
Tag Archive: criminal organisation act
Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
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Gold Coast Finks launch High Court legal action in Canberra against Queensland’s Criminal Organisation Act
Lawyers for the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks have launched a case in Canberra against Queensland laws designed to crack down on gangs. Lawyers for the Queensland government have defended the use of confidential information that helped it declare a chapter of the Finks bikie club a criminal organisation, saying the public has a…
Gold Coast Finks to fight anti-gang laws in the High Court
The Finks motorcycle club has won the right to fight Queensland’s anti-bikie laws in the High Court. The High Court today agreed to consider whether parts of the tough state laws, which could result in the club’s Gold Coast chapter being declared a criminal organisation, were unconstitutional. Finks barrister, Bret Walker SC, successfully argued today…
Gold Coast Finks bikies hire top barrister Bret Walker for fight against criminal organisation status
GOLD Coast Finks bikies have hired one of Australia’s top constitutional barristers for a High Court battle against a Queensland police bid to have them outlawed. The Finks have retained Bret Walker SC, a $12,000-a-day Sydney silk who led a successful High Court challenge to similar anti-bikie laws in South Australia. Mr Walker, who also…
More details of the Finks MC Gold Coast Chapter and potential Criminal Organisation
A VEIL of secrecy has been lifted from the self-proclaimed rulers of the Gold Coast underworld. Queensland’s first legal bid to have a motorcycle club declared a criminal organisation gives an unprecedented account of a murky subculture of violence and drug dealing long hidden from public view by the outlaw bikies’ code of silence. At…
Taskforce Hydra detective Nick Crawford betrays Queensland Police to work for Hells Angels legal firm
QUEENSLAND police have been left red-faced after one of their crack anti-bikie cops quit to work for a law firm that represents the Hells Angels. Nick Crawford, a former detective sergeant with the elite Hydra taskforce, resigned from the QPS this year to join Brisbane’s Rostron Carlyle Solicitors, which acts for the notorious international outlaw…
Sergeant-At-Arms Greg Keating is the Mayor of Fink Town on the Gold Coast
THEY deal, steal, bash at will and hand out death threats like other organisations hand out business cards. Court documents reveal how the Finks motorcycle club evolved into an outlaw gang that became the most-feared group of criminals on the Gold Coast. Less than a generation ago, the bikies were known for little more than…
Details revealed about QPol’s application to have Gold Coast Finks declared a criminal organisation
They allegedly boast a “terror team” responsible for handing out “Finks’ fines” or extortions and must wear jackets featuring an image of a cartoon wizard. They have allegedly been involved in murder, dealing in marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and speed and linked to a shooting in Sydney and even the attempted theft of a $400,000 Lamborghini…
Taskforce Hydra to use powers of Criminal Organisation Act for first time against Gold Coast Finks
A police application yesterday to declare the Gold Coast branch of the Finks Motorcycle Club illegal is the first attempt to use Queensland’s controversial anti-association laws. The legislation was so contentious when introduced by the Bligh government in 2009 that senior Liberal National Party figure Lawrence Springborg claimed Labor MPs “should be condemned to the…
QPol’s Taskforce Hydra applies to have Finks declared a criminal organisation
The Queensland Police Service has sought to have the Gold Coast chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club declared a criminal organisation in the first use of Queensland’s tough anti-association laws. Police today filed a formal application with the Supreme Court under the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 to declare the club, which would ban members associating…
Balkan Bandidos behind bad behaviour in Brisbane
A RENEGADE clique of bikies who grew up during Yugoslavia’s bloody civil war has emerged as provocateurs in a burst of outlaw-motorcycle-club-related violence in Queensland. The volatile young turks – part of a divisive new chapter of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club that includes members who don’t even ride bikes – are suspected of firing…
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