Monthly Archives: June 2008
One down – Three Abos to go in the Glynde NAB bank robbery
Sam Rodrigues: The Advertiser | June 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23926673-5006301,00.html A MAN was arrested at Ingle Farm this morning and charged with aggravated robbery over a terrifying gunpoint raid on a bank at Glynde last Thursday. Detectives from Operation Counteract, investigating armed robberies, believe they know the identities of the three other men wanted for the [...]
Vic Police chief bags SA bikie laws
The Advertiser | June 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23923536-5006301,00.html VICTORIA’S police chief is warning SA’s tough new anti-bikie gang laws will lead to increased conflict between police and bikies and drive them underground. Police Commissioner Christine Nixon says the laws will “merely drive the visible appearance of organised motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) underground, where the criminal activity will [...]
Adelaide City Council Donates $65 Grand to Islam – Where's Creativity's $$$?
Council grant for mosque work ABC | Jun 17, 2008 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/17/2276785.htm Australia’s oldest mosque is getting a $65,000 grant from Adelaide City Council to fund the repairs to one of its minarets. The mosque in Gilbert Street in the city was built in the late 1880s, with minarets added in 1903. Lord Mayor Michael Harbison [...]
"Bikie Laws" Not Draconian Enough for Liberals
Bikie laws ‘must cover prisons’ Nigel Hunt: The Advertiser | June 22, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23901839-5006301,00.html THE Opposition [Liberal Party] wants new legislation aimed at stopping bikies from associating to cover their activities in the state’s prisons. Opposition correctional services spokesman David Wade said revelations in the Sunday Mail last week of gang brawls indicated the Government [...]
Abo 'White revenge' rapist to be released
The Advertiser | June 20, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23894862-5005962,00.html AN Aboriginal man who committed a series of racially motivated rapes is set to be released into the community. The Court of Appeal today ruled Travice Allan Edwards be released from jail under a 10-year, 28-point community-based supervision order. Edwards was 23 in 1994 when he was sentenced [...]



