Source: brisbanetimes.com.au By: Marissa Calligeros Posted: 08/24/2009 How Queensland anti-bikie laws will work Australia - How Queensland anti-bikie laws will work: POLICE will apply to the Supreme Court to have OMCGs deemed "criminal organisations". POLICE will be required to provide a brief of evidence against OMCGs based on criminal intelligence. THE COURTS will apply "control orders" against individual members of criminal organisations, banning them for "associating" with other bikies. POLICE will apply to the Supreme Court for the removal of fortifications aimed at preventing access to premises by law enforcement. THE COURTS will make anti-fortification orders. If bikies do not comply with the initial order, police can apply for a second anti-fortication order to enter the premises and dismantle the fortification. INDEPENDENT BARRISTER will be appointed as Public Interest Monitor to ensure applications to have OMCGs declared criminal organisations are valid and comply with the legislation. YEARLY REVIEW of the legislation will conducted by a retired Supreme Court judge to ensure powers under the legislation are being appropriately exercised. FIVE YEAR REVIEW will be conducted by retired Supreme Court judge SUNSET CLAUSE will annul legislation after seven years. Government of the day will be required to re-enact legislation.

Source: qccl.org.au By: ACCL MEDIA RELEASE Posted: 08/24/2009 QUEENSLAND’S TOUGH NEW BIKIE LAWS SLAMMED Australia - The Australian Council for Civil Liberties has slammed Premier Bligh's tough new bikie laws as absolutely unnecessary. ACCL President Terry O'Gorman said the Premier's announcement that the new laws would be the toughest, not just in Australia but in the whole world, was law-and-order posturing and mindless rhetoric at its very worst. Mr O'Gorman also criticised Anna Bligh for turning back the clock to the pre- Fitzgerald era, both because of her refusal to consult on the new laws, and for reintroducing the discredited law of consorting which was dropped in the early 1980's because of police abuse of the law. "We have written to the Premier, the Police Minister and the Attorney General numerous times since the Sydney airport bikie murder requesting that the proposed controversial legislation be subject to widespread stakeholder consultation before Cabinet signed off on the new laws. We have been totally ignored. The 1989 Fitzgerald Report was highly critical of this sort of law-and-order legislation where the police are given the inside running in drafting new police powers and critics are sidelined and not consulted", Mr O'Gorman said. "The lack of consultation is made worse by the reintroduction of consorting or anti association laws which were discontinued in Queensland in the early 80's because of police abuse of that power." Mr O'Gorman also criticised the use of the terrorism law concept of control orders in the new anti bikie laws. "To use terrorism law concepts in domestic policing is totally unacceptable especially as there has been no evidence advanced by the Premier that the existing suite of tough laws under the Queensland Criminal Code, the Drugs Misuse Act and confiscation legislation are inadequate to deal with bikies who break the law", Mr O'Gorman said. Mr O'Gorman noted that the Premier says the new laws are directed at bikies who manufacture drugs, engage in extortion or launder money. "Manufacturing drugs is already the subject of harsh penalties in the Drugs Misuse Act. Extortion is covered in the Criminal Code and money laundering is outlawed in asset confiscation legislation", Mr O'Gorman said. Mr O'Gorman said that the new laws were a response to the Sydney airport murder in March this year arising from a fight between two bikie gangs. "The Sydney airport murder was a policing failure", the ACCL president said. "The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the NSW police have joint responsibility for Sydney Airport and they failed to get their act together." "It was a policing failure not a failure of the law". Mr O'Gorman said that the new bikie laws were opposed by an unusual alliance that included not only civil libertarians but law and order campaigners such as the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nick Cowdrey QC and former National Crimes Authority (NCA) member Mark Le Grand. 23 August 2009 Australian Council for Civil Liberties