Motorcycle Council calls Tasmania’s anti-consorting laws a ‘total over-reaction’

Everyday bike riders are being unfairly targeted under the state’s anti-bikie laws, according to the peak motorcycling body, but police say the laws are needed to protect the state from organised crime.

MOTORCYCLE club members should not be judged by the reputations of “outlaw clubs”, the state’s peak motorcycling body says.

Tasmanian Motorcycle Council president Paul Bullock said the insignia and consorting laws introduced in this state as part of the crackdown on outlaw motorcycle clubs was a “total over-reaction”.

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