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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Gang

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Cabbage Tree Hat Mob

Gipps Street Push

Plunkett Street Push

Riley Street Gang

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Gang

Cabbage Tree Hat Mob

Loosely formed gang from the sawyers and shingle splitters of the Cooks and Georges rivers which organised illegal bare-knuckle fights in secrecy in the bush. They were so named as they wore hats made from woven leaves of the cabbage tree palms.

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Gipps Street Push

Larrikin gang which operated from Gipps (now Reservoir) street Surry Hills.

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Plunkett Street Push

Street gang which terrorised the Woolloomooloo area before World War I.

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Riley Street Gang

Criminal gang involved in sly grog, robbery and murder from the late nineteenth century until the 1920s.

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Rocks Push

Larrikin gang who dominated and intimidated the residents of the Rocks from the 1870s to the 1890s by theft, assault and battery.

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