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Dateline: June 14

This Sunday, how can Canada’s massive crackdown on bikie gangs provide lessons for Australia?

dateline_hostSBS public afairs series Dateline reports on Canada’s massive crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs, a familiar theme given such matters are causing similar problems in Australia.

Video Journalist Nick Lazaredes travels across Canada and finds a country in the grip of an epidemic of illicit drug use fuelled by bikie trafficking networks. He speaks to investigators and ‘infiltrators’ who’ve penetrated underworld gang networks to send more than 100 members of the Hells Angels to jail.

Canada’s unique handling of the bikie crime wave could provide lessons for Australia….

Also on the program, David Brill talks with esteemed Australian Journalist Phillip Knightley while host George Negus speaks with Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Wangari Maathai, as she ramps up her campaign in the lead-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

It airs 8:30pm Sunday on SBS.

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