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Bikies crackdown: did the Constitution fail Queensland?
Adelaide Law School’s Dr Gabrielle Appleby writes for The Conversation on Queensland’s new law and order measures. Last week, Queensland’s state government introduced a number of tough new law and order measures targeting serious sexual offenders and bikies. Under the new laws, bikie gang members in Queensland face being locked up in maximum security jails for […]
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South Australia and New South Wales React to High Court Rulings on Bikies
In 2010 and 2011, the High Court dealt the governments of South Australia and New South Wales severe blows against their wars on organised crime when their respective ‘Bikie Bills’ were found, in part or in whole, unconstitutional. Gabrielle Appleby traces the history of the State Bikie Bills to their current iterations which were introduced […]
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