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Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!

TATTOOED Queenslanders would have to register their ink with the State Government under a radical proposal to crack down on bikie gang money-laundering operations.
Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens said fake names were used at bikie-affiliated parlours, with cash payments of thousands of dollars for bogus tattoo work.
"Considering the number of bikies and tattoo parlours I've seen in my area, considering the shootings in my area, I think it's a very worthwhile exercise to look into tattoo parlours and health activities associated with them."
Mr Stevens said the proposal could work with people required to give their name and identification to parlours when getting a tattoo with that information passed on to the Government register.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties spokesman Terry O'Gorman said it was a naive and extreme approach.

"To require everyone who gets a tat to be registered is to require a huge number of the population who want it as a fashion statement to go on what would effectively be a criminal register," he said.
He said there was already a Federal Government body, AUSTRAC, which used high-tech means to investigate alleged money laundering, while if police had legitimate information to suggest a tattoo parlour was being used for laundering they would easily be able to get a phone tap and listening devices in place.
"There's no evidence that tattoo parlours are being used to launder money," he said.