Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
May 4th 2013, 9:57 pm
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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.
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.
May 4th 2013, 10:20 pm
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
Bonkers
May 4th 2013, 10:23 pm
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May 4th 2013, 10:56 pm
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
Will they also require registration of piercings?
May 4th 2013, 11:08 pm
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May 4th 2013, 11:20 pm
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
Thank God I live in proper Australia.
May 5th 2013, 4:12 am
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May 5th 2013, 6:13 am
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
It's an election year you have to accept ludicrous ideas from pollies. Bogus tattooing will simply change to bogus bike part chroming or bogus engine swaps etc etc.
May 5th 2013, 6:38 am
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I have a butterfly tattoo in my butt. 
May 5th 2013, 7:13 am
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May 5th 2013, 1:14 pm
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
IMO you're not in Australia if you're not living in either Melbourne or Sydney. 
May 5th 2013, 3:13 pm
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Sounds ok to me.
May 5th 2013, 4:33 pm
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Re: Register your tattoo here.....Queensland loses the plot again!
Yeah I'm sure tattoo parlours are going to fill out all that paperwork correctly 
especially the ones that are guilty of money laundering, I mean why wouldn't they 
And if you dont love Kylie Minogue, you'll never be allowed citizenship either!
especially the ones that are guilty of money laundering, I mean why wouldn't they And if you dont love Kylie Minogue, you'll never be allowed citizenship either!
