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investigation. Because we live in reality and because we are aim at effectiveness, I move the following amendment to Mr Hanson’s motion that has been circulated in my name:

Omit all text after “That this Assembly”, substitute:

“(1) notes the:

(a) importance of evidence-based policy and laws;

(b) need for proactive measures which are proven to undermine the criminal profits of criminal gangs;

(c) anti-consorting laws have not prevented the operation of serious criminal gangs in other States; and

(d) independent reviews of anti-consorting laws have found these disproportionately target vulnerable people, including young people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and their freedom of movement and other human rights;

(2) further notes:

(a) the report of former police officer and Associate Professor Goldsworthy tabled in this place in February 2020, which finds:

(i) anti-consorting laws are not evidence-based;

(ii) anti-consorting laws do not operate to target outlaw motorcycle gangs;

(iii) anti-consorting laws are not effective; and

(iv) measures which target unexplained wealth are effective;

(b) the recommendations in the Goldsworthy Report that the Government has used evidence-based policy and legislation to address the risks and reality of organised crime, including:

(i) since 2016, providing $11 770 000 to police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to target, disrupt, deter, prevent and prosecute organised crime; and

(ii) introducing law reform which appropriately targets and punishes the criminal and profit-making activities of organised crime, including:

(A) increased penalties for drive-by shootings, fighting and offensive behaviour;

(B) increased penalties for specified offences committed in connection with a criminal group or committed by a person associated with a criminal group;

(C) new powers to ACT Policing to preserve evidence in a timely manner at crime scenes;

(D) new powers to permit ACT Policing to remove structures or devices which attempt to defeat the proper execution of search warrants;

(E) tiered offences of serious affray;

(F) introducing an exclusion order scheme to exclude certain people from specified licensed premises through a civil mechanism; and

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