Tonight, Tuesday 5 June at 8.30pm on SBS One, Insight does what no other current affairs
show has been able to do – it brings bikies and police face to face, in a frank
and tense debate.
In the wake of shootings across the country, several Australian states
have introduced laws which crack down on bikie groups. Even Prime Minister Julia
Gillard has said that coordinating anti-bikie laws across the nation is an
urgent priority.
Insight asks whether the new laws unfairly target innocent clubs, and what this means for Australians’ civil liberties.
In what promises to be an extraordinary episode, real bikies come face to face with police, and also reveal details of their culture of brotherhood, and even retribution.
Guests include:
Bear Cameron has been a member of the Gypsy Jokers
Motorcycle Club in South Australia for 18 years. In the past Bear’s tattoo
studio was shot up and Bear was later involved in a revenge attack.
Rohan Tidswell is Sergeant at Arms with the Rebels
Motorcycle Club in Queensland. The Rebels are said to be Australia’s largest
bikie gang. Rohan says he joined the group 19 years ago for the mateship when
his personal life was tough.
Det Supt Arthur Katsogiannis is the head of the NSW Gangs Squad. He says the recent spate of shootings in Sydney is between two clubs and linked to a so-called “patching over” of motorcycle club members from one club to another. He says the culture and ethnic mix of clubs is changing and this is part of the problem.
Det Supt Arthur Katsogiannis is the head of the NSW Gangs Squad. He says the recent spate of shootings in Sydney is between two clubs and linked to a so-called “patching over” of motorcycle club members from one club to another. He says the culture and ethnic mix of clubs is changing and this is part of the problem.
Nicholas Cowdery is the former NSW Director of Public
Prosecutions. He has prosecuted bikies but thinks new bikie laws are a
dangerous breach of civil liberties. He says previous laws were adequate and
now the balance is wrong.
Greg Hirst is a senior member of Brotherhood Christian
Motorcycle Club. He says police and the government don’t understand the
complexity of the motorcycle club scene in Australia. He says the new
anti-bikie laws enable authorities to crack down on any community group in
society including religious groups.
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