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1. What was proposedDeborah MorrisLiberal · Opposition
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   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) all Canberrans have the right to be safe; (b) the ACT has the smallest police force per capita in Australia; (c) according to the ACT Policing 2023-2024 annual report, there are various major challenges and demands putting pressure on local policing including police resourcing and organised crime; (d) the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia without anti-consorting laws; (e) according to the ACT’s Chief Police Officer, Scott Lee, the ACT’s legal environment gives outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCG) the “right” to hold their annual meetings in Canberra; (f) three recent annual OMCG meetings involving the Rebels, the Comancheros and Hells Angels required a significant diversion of police resources to monitor the events; (g) according to ACT Policing, the three OMCG events cost ACT Policing $409,771 to monitor, and required the attendance of 361 police officers over eight days; and (h) successive ACT Chief Police Officers and the Australian Federal Police Association have supported anti-consorting laws as a preventative measure to dismantle and disrupt organised OMCG crime in Canberra; and (2) calls on the ACT Government to: (a) place community safety as the overarching principle in crime prevention and policing policy; (b) ensure the community’s right to safety takes precedence over the “right” of convicted bikie gang members to associate; (c) give police preventative tools to fight serious and organised crime to keep the community safe and reduce pressure on police resourcing; and (d) with respect to (2)(a), (b) and (c), introduce anti-consorting laws to disrupt, dismantle and prevent outlaw motorcycle gang activity in Canberra.

2. Proposed changeTara CheyneLabor · Minister9 April 2025

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   Omit paragraph (2)(d). Debate continued.

   Agreed in a recorded vote, 15 to 8. Agreed. It only took words out, so there's nothing to find in the final text.

   Ayes 15

   • Andrew Barr, Marisa Paterson, Michael Pettersson, Tara Cheyne, Chris Steel, Rachel Stephen-Smith, Caitlin Tough, Taimus Werner-Gibbings, Suzanne Orr
   • Andrew Braddock, Shane Rattenbury, Jo Clay, Laura Nuttall
   • Fiona Carrick, Thomas Emerson

   Noes 8

   • Chiaka Barry, Peter Cain, Leanne Castley, Ed Cocks, Jeremy Hanson, James Milligan, Deborah Morris, Mark Parton
3. What the Assembly decidedAgreed

   Decided on the voices: no individual votes were recorded, so this doesn’t show that every MLA agreed.

   Final agreed wording

   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) all Canberrans have the right to be safe; (b) the ACT has the smallest police force per capita in Australia; (c) according to the ACT Policing 2023-2024 annual report, there are various major challenges and demands putting pressure on local policing including police resourcing and organised crime; (d) the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia without anti-consorting laws; (e) according to the ACT’s Chief Police Officer, Scott Lee, the ACT’s legal environment gives outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCG) the “right” to hold their annual meetings in Canberra; (f) three recent annual OMCG meetings involving the Rebels, the Comancheros and Hells Angels required a significant diversion of police resources to monitor the events; (g) according to ACT Policing, the three OMCG events cost ACT Policing $409,771 to monitor and required the attendance of 361 police officers over eight days; and (h) successive ACT Chief Police Officers and the Australian Federal Police Association have supported anti-consorting laws as a preventative measure to dismantle and disrupt organised OMCG crime in Canberra; and (2) calls on the ACT Government to: (a) place community safety as the overarching principle in crime prevention and policing policy; (b) ensure the community’s right to safety takes precedence over the “right” of convicted bikie gang members to associate; and (c) give police preventative tools to fight serious and organised crime to keep the community safe and reduce pressure on police resourcing.

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   That this Assembly: (1) notes that: (a) all Canberrans have the right to be safe; (b) the ACT has the smallest police force per capita in Australia; (c) according to the ACT Policing 2023-2024 annual report, there are various major challenges and demands putting pressure on local policing including police resourcing and organised crime; (d) the ACT is the only jurisdiction in Australia without anti-consorting laws; (e) according to the ACT’s Chief Police Officer, Scott Lee, the ACT’s legal environment gives outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCG) the “right” to hold their annual meetings in Canberra; (f) three recent annual OMCG meetings involving the Rebels, the Comancheros and Hells Angels required a significant diversion of police resources to monitor the events; (g) according to ACT Policing, the three OMCG events cost ACT Policing $409,771 to monitor and required the attendance of 361 police officers over eight days; and (h) successive ACT Chief Police Officers and the Australian Federal Police Association have supported anti-consorting laws as a preventative measure to dismantle and disrupt organised OMCG crime in Canberra; and (2) calls on the ACT Government to: (a) place community safety as the overarching principle in crime prevention and policing policy; (b) ensure the community’s right to safety takes precedence over the “right” of convicted bikie gang members to associate; [put in: and](c) give police preventative tools to fight serious and organised crime to keep the community safe and reduce pressure on police resourcing. [taken out: and (d) with respect to (2)(a), (b) and (c), introduce anti-consorting laws to disrupt, dismantle and prevent outlaw motorcycle gang activity in Canberra.]

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