What Melbourne, Australia street gang founded by members of Victoria's South Sudanese community fought a rival gang made up of youths from a South Pacific background in March 2016 after the Moomba parade.
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Islander 23 Islander 23 also known as I-23 is a Pacific Islander street gang in West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Islander 23 came to prominence in the national media after a large scale brawl in Melbourne's Central Business District between it and the rival gang Apex in March 2016 after the Moomba parade. It consists largely of youths from a South Pacific background.
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Apex (gang) Apex is a street gang in Melbourne, Australia. It was formed in 2012. The founding members were part of Victoria's South Sudanese community, although the gang later became more diverse, particularly after it merged with the YCW gang. Associated with violent car-jackings and burglaries, Apex came to prominence in the national media after a brawl in Melbourne's Central Business District between it and the rival Islander 23 gang in March 2016 after the Moomba parade. This prompted a crackdown by Victoria Police. They apparently have little structure and no official colours.
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Kokoda Crescent Kokoda Crescent is a 1988 Australian film about World War Two veterans who seek revenge against the drug pushers responsible for the death of one of their grandchildren.
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Russell Street bombing The Russell Street bombing was the 27 March 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Community Cup The Community Cup is an annual charity event held in Melbourne (and since 2012 - Sydney), Australia which features a celebrity Australian rules football match. It is noted for its cult following, celebrity appearances and media profile.
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Eumerella Wars The Eumerella Wars were the violent encounters between European settlers and aboriginal Australians in south west Victoria.
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Organised crime in Australia Organised crime in Australia refers to the activities of various groups of crime families and/or organised crime syndicates in Australia.
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Fitzroy, Victoria Fitzroy is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District in the local government area of the City of Yarra. At the 2016 Census, Fitzroy had a population of 10,445. Planned as Melbourne's first suburb, it was later also one of the city's first areas to gain municipal status. It occupies Melbourne's smallest and most densely populated suburban area, just 100 ha.
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Youth Projects Youth Projects is an independent, not-for-profit organisation founded in Melbourne, Australia. The goal of youth projects is to create life changing opportunities for every young person, working with them to build resilience, promote inclusion and ultimately empower them to overcome disadvantage. Youth Projects provides a broad range of services designed to enable a holistic approach to tackling social disadvantage, homelessness and drug and alcohol issues including health and education programs, community outreach and training and employment services.
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Victorian Roller Derby League The Victorian Roller Derby League (VRDL or Victoria) is a roller derby league based in Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 2007, the VRDL contains four teams: the Dead Ringer Rosies, The Dolls of Hazzard (formally Dolls Au-Go-Go), the Toxic Avengers and the newest team Rock Mobsters. They also feature two teams, the VRDL All Stars, and Queen Bees, who compete in interleague competitions within Australia and internationally. They are the current first place title holders of The Great Southern Slam, and 'A-Team of the Year' for Women's Health's 'I Support Women In Sport' campaign. VDRL is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), having gained membership in December 2011. As of April 2017, VRDL is the top-ranked team in the WFTDA, following Gotham's run at the top since January 2013.
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Ballarat Begonia Festival Ballarat Begonia Festival is a carnival and community cultural festival held annually in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Run since 1953, it is a major tourist attraction of the city. Themed around the begonia flower which blooms in the temperate Ballarat climate, traditional features of the festival programme include floral displays and plantings on the main city streets, a centrepiece parade down Sturt Street including floats constructed by local community groups including sporting clubs, businesses, educational institutions, musicians and special interest groups and military tattoo.
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Collins Street, Melbourne Collins Street is a major street in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. It is known for its grand Victorian architecture, prestigious boutiques and high-end retailers. Collins Street has served as Melbourne's traditional main street since 1837 and was laid out as a core feature of the Hoddle Grid.
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Battle of Manners Street The Battle of Manners Street refers to a riot involving American servicemen and New Zealand servicemen and civilians outside the Allied Services Club in Manners Street, Wellington, New Zealand in 1943. The club was a social centre, open to all military personnel.
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Van Tuong Nguyen Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: "Nguyễn Tường Vân",   ; 17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005) baptised Caleb, was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also addressed as Nguyen Tuong Van in the Singaporean media, his name in Vietnamese custom, as well as in most Asian customs.
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South Sudan Liberation Movement The South Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) is an armed group that operates in the Upper Nile Region of South Sudan. The group's creation was announced in November 1999 by people of the Nuer ethnicity who were in both the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the government-allied South Sudan Defense Force (SSDF) gathered in Waat. The SSLM was declared to be unaligned in the Second Sudanese Civil War, then entering its sixteenth year. The name "South Sudan Liberation Movement" was decided upon the next year, borrowing from the earlier Southern Sudan Liberation Movement, which existed in the 1980s.
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Bilal Skaf Bilal Skaf (Arabic: بلال سكاف‎ ‎ ) (born 14 September 1981) is an Australian serial gang rapist who led groups of Lebanese Australian men who committed gang rape attacks against women in Sydney in 2000.
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Gangs in Australia The history of gangs in Australia goes back to the colonial era. Criminal gangs flourished in the Rocks district of Sydney in its early history in the 19th century. The Rocks Push was a notorious larrikin gang, which dominated The Rocks area of Sydney, Australia from the 1800s to the end of the 1900s.
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Honoured Society (Australia) The Honoured Society (Italian: "Onorata Società" ) is a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta criminal confederation, started in Melbourne and currently active in all Australia. In 1963, it was reportedly involved in the Victoria Market Murders. It was led by gangster Frank Benvenuto until his slaying in 2000. Tony Romeo, another high-ranking member, was shot in 2002.
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Parkville, Victoria Parkville is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government areas are the Cities of Melbourne and Moreland. At the 2016 Census, Parkville had a population of 7,409.
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African Australians African Australians are Australians of African ancestry. Large-scale immigration from Africa to Australia is only a recent phenomenon, with Europe and Asia traditionally being the largest sources of migration to Australia. In 2005–06, permanent settler arrivals to Australia included 4,000 South Africans and 3,800 Sudanese, constituting the sixth and seventh largest sources of migrants, respectively.
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The Big Blue (A-League) The Big Blue, also known as The City Derby, is a match in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League. It is contested between rivals Sydney FC !Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory !Melbourne Victory . While the main colour of both teams are shades of the colour blue, in Australian English the word "blue" can also mean "a fight, brawl or heated argument".
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Koomba Park Koomba Park is one of the parks comprising the Dandenong Valley Parklands in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It consists of 92 ha , of which 33 ha are publicly accessible, and is bounded by the Dandenong Creek, Boronia Road, EastLink, Mountain Highway and Burwood Highway in a clockwise direction. The park opened in December 1981.