Australia - Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland says the Commonwealth Government will consider changing the federal law governing phone taps in a bid to help states crack down on bikie gangs and organised crime. Mr McClelland says he will discuss the need for a nationally consistent framework to tackle bikie gangs when he meets with the state attorneys-general next month...
The current laws say phones can be tapped if police suspect someone of a crime which could attract a seven-year jail sentence, but Mr McClelland says that could be lowered to five years. (more)
