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9th July 2025 Issue no. 761

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Hopes Queensland licensing overhaul will rid security industry of bikies

Locksmiths and bouncers would be licensed by police under a government plan to head off bikie infiltration of the Australian security industry. The shake-up would also stop criminals exploiting a "dead easy" licensing regime under Queensland's Office of Fair Trading to get security work interstate, industry sources claim.

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