OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE GANG PROVIDING WORKERS FOR GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Deborah Morris MLA
Shadow Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Community Safety
Shadow Minister for Corrections
Shadow Minister for the Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence
Media Statement
5 June 2025
The Shadow Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Community Safety, Deborah Morris MLA has today written to ACT Ministers Steel and Paterson to confirm whether outlaw motorcycle gangs operating in the ACT are profiting off Canberra families through ACT Government-funded programs.
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald last week, it was reported that:
“Canberra has become a safe haven for bikies, and the Finks were the first to exploit this. It’s literally happening under the government’s nose, but nothing is being done,” the gang associate told this masthead.
Ms Morris said that the lack of any anti-consorting laws that the ACT Labor government refuses to introduce now sees bikie gangs benefiting from taxpayer-funded projects.
“Even in just April this year, I moved a motion calling on the ACT Labor government to introduce robust anti-consorting laws, yet their response was akin to ‘nothing to see here’”, Ms Morris said.
“Now we see that outlaw bikie gangs are getting taxpayer money for working on infrastructure projects, with the full knowledge of the ACT government while the ACT police are pretty much powerless to do anything.
“I am pretty sure all Canberrans would be outraged to know that outlaw bikie gangs are effectively being sponsored by the Government and that is why I have written to the Minister’s seeking answers.
“We all know that ACT Labor is opposed to introducing anti-consorting laws, despite calls from the ACT police to do so. They seem to prefer to support the rights of outlaw bikie gangs to make money over the safety of Canberra residents.”
ENDS
Links:
Letter to Minister Steel: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jr9nz3z86slgwr3r9jg6g/250604-Minister-Steel-OMCGs-Involvement-in-Light-Rail-Construction.pdf?rlkey=mwqwrhi520uh52o30jobngls6&st=cnn8hp6r&dl=0
Copy of the SMH article: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/46gyofwl3fk9551mb06jj/SMH-article-Bikie-gangs-30-May-2025.pdf?rlkey=d2xjqkqv9zc92mv06pdu6ai4w&st=wflt6zb4&dl=0
