Queensland Labor and Katter’s Australian Party MPs have rolled out the red carpet to criminal gangs giving them the green light to peddle drugs to kids in regional communities.
Shadow Attorney-General Ian Walker said Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth had failed regional communities after they backed the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s watered-down criminal gang laws.
“Bikies were banking on this soft-on-crime government to deliver them an early Christmas present and Annastacia Palaszczuk and her merry bunch didn’t disappoint,” Mr Walker said.
“Bikie clubhouses will now reopen, bikies will be allowed to carry weapons and bikies will once again be free to run licensed premises.
“People of Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich and Toowoomba beware – the bikies are back.
“The bikies now have an additional weapon in their armour – a get-out-of-jail card, thanks to Annastacia Palaszczuk, Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth.
“KAP struck a dirty deal with Annastacia Palaszczuk and regional families will be worse off because of it.”
Mr Walker said thanks to the Palaszczuk Labor Government, bikies would be back peddling ICE to our kids, standing over business owners and shouting from the rooftops that they once again ruled the streets.
“The LNP’s tough stance on organised crime saw criminal motorcycle gangs driven out of Queensland,” he said.
“Thanks to Labor, aided and abetted by Robbie Katter and Shane Knuth, bikies are now free to ply their evil and life-destroying trade in regional communities across the state.
“I wonder if Annastacia Palaszczuk, Robbie Katter or Shane Knuth will have the guts to face the families of Queensland kids who die from drugs supplied by bikies?”
Mr Walker said lawyers who represented bikies said their clients were “absolutely petrified” of the LNP’s tough laws.
“We were happy to see bikies flee the state because it meant that crime rates plummeted and Queenslanders were safer,” he said.
“Labor’s watered-down laws are a political solution to a problem that does not exist.
“The majority of Queenslanders support the LNP’s tough laws that were working to keep them safer.”
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