Media Release.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says today’s High Court of
Australia ruling has seen Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie hypocritically embrace
the anti-crime gang laws of the former government which the LNP has repeatedly
promised to strike down.
“Since the Criminal Organisation Act was first debated in State
Parliament in 2009, Mr Bleijie has been just one of a number of LNP politicians
to denigrate it,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“At the time the laws were debated in 2009 people like the then Shadow
Attorney-General Lawrence Springborg repeatedly voted against them.
“The LNP even tried to introduce 27 amendments to weaken the laws put
forward by Labor.
“The then Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek, led the LNP’s move to
vote against the laws.
“Even after the LNP was elected last year, the Premier, the
Attorney-General and the Police Minister continued to criticise the laws.
“They said they planned to roll back Labor’s laws because Mr Bleijie said
they affected the civil liberties of criminals.
“In a statement in April 2012 he said: ‘The Newman Government does not
think anti-association laws are the way to go with rogue bikie gangs and other
organised crime syndicates.’
“Yet today when the laws stand up to challenge in the High Court of
Australia – as Labor believed they would – the LNP suddenly backflips.
“In typical hypocritical fashion Mr Bleijie is now not only claiming a
victory, but also claiming Labor’s laws as his own,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
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