Category Archives: anti-Biker Laws
SA Election: Attorney General Denounces the World as Dangerous!
It’s election time in South Australia and the Attorney General/Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Michael Atkinson is on the warpath hunting for mice and other mediocre targets to take on. Will you be next? Gamers threaten me: Atkinson Danielle Forsyth: Independent Weekly | February 16, 2010 http://www.independentweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/gamers-threaten-me-atkinson/1752321.aspx Attorney General Michael Atkinson has launched an attack at [...]
Finks send letter to Attorney-General Michael Atkinson
Sean Fewster, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | January 29, 2009 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24979443-5006301,00.html POLICE are wasting $3 million a year policing a bikie club “made up of grandfathers, union members and gainfully-employed people”, the Finks have claimed. In a letter to Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, the outlaw group says it is “not in the public interest” to spend [...]
Adelaide’s gangsters must go
Doug Robertson, Police Reporter: The Advertiser | October 06, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24451792-5006301,00.html GUN-WIELDING “gangsters” are making the city unsafe and their haunts must be shut down immediately, Adelaide Lord Mayor Michael Harbison says. In the wake of yesterday’s dramatic early morning shooting in Gouger St where a person was wounded and a bystander injured, Mr Harbison [...]
City Shooter was Iraqi Refugee – NOT “Bikies” as Claimed by Government and Media
Gouger St shooter ‘an Iraqi Gulf War vet’, Adelaide court told Sean Fewster, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | September 30, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24424240-2682,00.html THE man charged over a shootout in Gouger St is a former Iraqi Army corporal and weapons expert with “extensive” ties to organised crime, a court has heard. A prosecutor today alleged Gulf [...]
‘Secret’ police to use fake IDs
Nigel Hunt: The Advertiser | September 20, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24377910-5006301,00.html POLICE will have the power to create false identity documents for undercover operatives under new laws to be introduced in South Australia. And for the first time, the identities of the undercover police officers will remain secret during court processes to prevent reprisals from criminals they [...]
Police ready to apply for bike clubs to be outlawed
Daniel Wills: The Advertiser | September 04, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24293389-5006301,00.html POLICE say they are ready to take imminent action to outlaw criminal bike gangs after tough new State Government legislation came into effect today. The Serious and Organised Crime Act allows Police Commissioner Mal Hyde to apply to Attorney-General Michael Atkinson to outlaw individual gangs and [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Gypsy Jokers gather for funeral that will soon be illegal
Colin James, Legal Affairs Editor: The Advertiser | June 18, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23883992-2682,00.html GYPSY Jokers from across Australia have gathered in Adelaide for a funeral which would be illegal under new anti-bikie laws introduced by the State Government. The bikies were farewelling club president Wayne “Chiller” McGrath, 42, a father of four and part-owner of four [...]
Bikie gang law in force today
The Advertiser | June 08, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23828355-2682,00.html THE first stage of the State Government’s three-pronged legislative attack on outlaw bikie gangs and their associates comes into force today. Gang members involved in brawls or those threatening witnesses will be charged with new offences under the Public Order Offences Act, which carries penalties of up to [...]