{"id":6194,"date":"2024-07-25T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2024-07-25T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:04:43","slug":"media-cfmeu-bikie-faction-dates-back-decades-associate-professor-mark-lauchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2024\/07\/25\/media-cfmeu-bikie-faction-dates-back-decades-associate-professor-mark-lauchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Media:  &#8220;CFMEU &#8216;bikie-faction; dates back decades&#8221; &#8211; Associate Professor Mark Lauchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3704\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/06\/Mark-Lauchs-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Mark Lauchs has provided media commentary to a number of publications relating to alleged links between bikie gangs and bullying and bribery within the CFMEU.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere\u2019s no secrets here,\u201d the Queensland University of Technology associate professor told AAP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe had a royal commission. It\u2019s constantly been reported. The history of some of the key players and their role in debt collection is 40\u00a0years old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing actually being revealed that we really didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/citynews.com.au\/2024\/no-secrets-cfmeu-bikie-fication-dates-back-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.qut.edu.au\/centre-for-justice\/our-people\/mark-lauchs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associate Professor Mark Lauchs<\/a> researches in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, as well as corruption and accountability, dark networks and organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member, Associate Professor Mark Lauchs has provided media commentary to a number of publications relating to alleged links between bikie gangs and bullying and bribery within the CFMEU. \u201cThere\u2019s no secrets here,\u201d the Queensland University of Technology associate professor told AAP. \u201cWe had a royal commission. It\u2019s constantly been reported. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":6195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}