THE push for uniform anti-bikie gang laws will be resurrected today by the nation’s attorneys-general to deal with cross-border criminality. Chief law officers from the states and territories will discuss a united front on the bikie war, modelled on planned laws by the Baillieu government. Consensus also will be sought to defeat commonwealth attempts to…
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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…
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QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has backed the rights of bikies to wear their club colours in public. A Gold Coast tattoo parlour was sprayed in gunfire early this morning, reigniting debate about measures to crack down on bikie gangs and organised crime. Mr Newman said the Liberal National Party (LNP) government was prepared to look…
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The LNP has vowed to smash organised crime in Queensland on winning government. LNP Shadow Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said the tired, 20-year Labor government had allowed organised crime to flourish – as evidenced by drug-running gangs choosing the Gold Coast as their national distribution base. “On winning government, the LNP will enact its Criminal Proceeds…
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Organised crime groups have been let off the hook because the cowardly Bligh Labor Government refuses to support laws that strip criminals of ill-gotten cash, goods and property, the State Opposition said today. LNP Shadow Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said the hopeless Attorney-General Paul Lucas and his inept Labor mates have had two years to test…
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