Page 810 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 20 March 2019
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Since we tabled this legislation, there has been a shooting. I have been warning for many years—as have others, as have the police—that eventually a member of our community would be shot. Since only the last sitting, when these laws were tabled, a woman in Richardson was shot. Thankfully, she did not die. Let me quote from a media article:
A woman is in hospital with a gunshot wound to the shoulder after a bikie-related drive-by shooting in Richardson in the early hours of Monday morning.
Police said the home had been targeted in an attack on members of the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang.
Three people were inside the suburban home when the bullets struck. The victim was not a member of the gang …
The article continued:
Superintendent Moller described this attack as a worrying development.
That is the man leading the task force saying that this is a worrying development. While the government is saying, “We have this in control; we have this in hand,” the police, the superintendent leading this investigation, are saying, “This is a worrying development.”
The article continued, referring to Superintendent Moller:
“It is a conflict between gangs,” he said.
“All these incidents are worrying and that’s why we are committed to pressing on with this investigation and seeing every avenue through to the end.”
He would not say at this time whether this drive-by shooting was linked to recent drive-by shooting incidents, although the modus operandi was clearly a familiar one to Canberra residents.
Bullets were fired at a two-storey house in Harrington Circuit, Kambah on February 4, and three vehicles were set on fire outside the house. Police confirmed that people living in the Kambah house had “connections” to outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Last year bikie gangs were responsible for multiple drive-by shootings and targeted attacks across Canberra, including one on a Calwell residence in which bullets were fired into the home and cars set alight …
While the ACT government provided more powers to police last year, it has stopped short of matching the powerful anti-consorting laws adopted by the Queensland and NSW governments, and which the Liberal opposition and the federal police union actively support.
I note that Queensland has a Human Rights Act and Victoria has a Human Rights Act. Both have tough anti-consorting laws. So do not hide behind your Human Rights Act
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