Category: Australia

Lawyer Says Biker Gangs Will Fight SA Laws

ABC | May 23, 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/23/2253504.htm

A barrister says bikie gangs are uniting to challenge the South Australian Government’s anti-gangs legislation.

New laws to take effect from July will let authorities restrict association and declare gangs illegal.

Barrister Craig Caldicott says groups are putting aside differences and plan to fund a High Court challenge.

“A number of the groups are talking,” he said.

“You must bear in mind that not just bikies but it’s any group that the Attorney-General and the Commissioner of Police target.

“Probably (Premier) Mr Rann and (Attorney-General) Mr Atkinson have done better to unite the groups …

Draconian Laws to ‘Squash’ Bikers & Everyone Else Along With Them

Law passed to ‘squash’ bikies

Joanna Vaughan, Political Reporter: The Advertiser | May 08, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23662466-2682,00.html

POLICE soon will have the power to “squash” bikie gangs and force them to move elsewhere after the Government’s controversial anti-bikie legislation passed through Parliament last night.
Police Minister Paul Holloway said SA was on the verge of having the nation’s and perhaps the world’s toughest anti-bikie laws.

“These are the laws that police have asked for and, finally, we are able to ensure police have exactly what they need to take on these criminal bikie gangs,” he said.

When the laws are gazetted, …

A Complaint to the Police Complaints Authority

TO THE POLICE COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY

COMPLAINANT
Cailen Cambeul
POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 420, Oaklands Park, 5046
Telephone No: 61 88*****88

POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED
NAME: Minchenberg
STATION: E-Crime/Major Crime
RANK: DSC
IN UNIFORM?: No
AGE (APPROX): Over 40
DESCRIPTION & APPEARANCE: Approx 5ft 8in & obese

WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?
Date: 29 March 2006
Time: 08:00 am
WHERE DID IT HAPPEN?
Town or Suburb: Reynella
Street: Hutchinson Ave
House No: Flat 2, No. 8
Nearest Cross Street: Main South Road

THE COMPLAINT
The officer in question (along with approximately nine other officers) acted without authority in seizing two Personal Computers, Federal …

‘Sorry’ Excuse for Aboriginal Violence

‘Sorry’ excuse for mob violence

Phoebe Stewart: NT News | February 20th, 2008

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/02/20/3404_ntnews.html

‘Sorry’ Excuse for Aboriginal Violence


PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s national apology to the stolen generation (Australia’s indigenous children raised by the state) has sparked a spate of racial violence in Darwin.

Five people had to be admitted to hospital after one brawl. The Caucasian men were attacked by a group of 10 Aboriginal men, who demanded that their victims “say sorry”.

A 28-year-old Territory woman watched helplessly as her friend was king-hit and kicked to the ground outside a Darwin 24-hour eatery on Sunday morning. She said three men ran at …

Qld State Premier Says Federal Immigration Minister Racist

Immigration Minister ‘racist’: Bligh

Tony Moore | Brisbane Times | October 5, 2007 – 11:29AM

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/immigration-minister-racist-bligh/2007/10/05/1191091328911.html

Premier Anna Bligh has launched a scathing attack on Federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, describing his comments about the Sudanese community as “racist” and as coming from the “deep south of America in the 1950s”.

[Snip]

Mr Andrews earlier this week cut the number of African refugees to be accepted into Australia each year, citing the failure of Sudanese refugees to properly integrate as one of the reasons behind the decision.

It prompted talkback callers to raise minor crime issues and talk of Sudanese …

SA Minister for Multicultural Affairs is a Rockspider?

A short joke to begin …

SA Attorney-General and Minister for Multicultural Affairs Michael Atkinson is visiting an elementary school.

After speaking for 15 minutes he says, “I will now answer any questions you have.”

Bobby stands up and says: “I have four questions, sir:

  1. Is it true that there are paedophiles inside the SA government?
  2. What really happened to the Beaumont children?
  3. Why are you using Racial Vilification Law to destroy civil liberties?
  4. Where is the evidence of gas chambers in 1940’s Germany?”

Just then the bell goes off and the kids are sent out to play. Upon returning, …

SA Government Raid’s Home – 2006

The following blog entry was originally written in October of 2006 for another blog I wrote on from 2006 until October 1, 2008 (yesterday). The Director of Public Prosecutions did not authorise the police to investigate my case. So I was not charged and the confiscated items were eventually returned in late January of 2008 after two years sitting in the storage room at Major Crime.

Thoughtcrime or Thoughtcriminal? Why do I choose to describe myself as such?

The answer to that is, to put it bluntly, the corrupt state (at the present time I live in the state of …

Complaint Lodged Against White Supremacists

Nine News | May 22, 2002

ATSIC made an official complaint to Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Commission about racist leaflets allegedly distributed by a white supremacist group in Rockhampton.

David Wragge, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission’s central Queensland chairman, said the leaflets should become a test case for the state’s new racial vilification legislation.

Under amendments to anti-discrimination laws last year, the Beattie Government outlawed the use of racial and religious hatred to incite violence.

The new laws make unlawful any public statements that incite hatred towards, serious contempt for or severe ridicule of a person or group on the …

Laws to Affect Creativity

The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) | April 17, 2001

The white supremacist group The World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) [now the Church of Creativity] is making headlines in Queensland again, this time as one of the groups most likely to be hit by tough new racial vilification laws due to be introduced next month.

Both the World Church of the Creator and the Ku Klux Klan have been under police investigation in Queensland and NSW over the past eight weeks following two racially motivated incidents.

In Rockhampton the WCOTC was being investigated after the Palmtree Wutaru Aboriginal Land Corporation was …