Know your WA gang.

The following gangs are known to have clubhouses and/or prominent centres of operation in Western Australia. They are loosely divided into two groups: motorcycle gangs and ethnic based groups. The former prefer motorbikes and penny farthings and are a more dangerous evolutionary variation of the bogan; the ethnic-based gangs usually employ souped up Japanese sport sedans such as Mitsubishi Lancers and Suburu WRXs. A discussion of gang hype and the use of ethnic generalisations is given below in following posts.

Coffin Cheaters: Bogans

Gypsy jokers: Bogans

Club Deroes: Bogans

Bandidos: Bogans

Rebels: Bogans

God’s Garbage: Bogans

GANGajang: Australian*

Sword Boys: Lebanese

Scorpion Boys**: Lebanese

Filo Boys: Lebanese?

Spider Boys: Asian (Chinese and/or Vietnamese)

M’Boys: Asian (Chinese and/or Vietnamese)

African Kings: Somalian?


* The status of this gang is currently unknown. Despite widespread belief that they no longer exist, sightings and soundings are often heard with alarming frequency on Sky Show Night (see Space is the Place part 2).

** In some newspaper articles, it is the Scorpion Boys and not the Sword Boys who are implicated in the Metro’s club attack on Coffin Cheater Troy Mercanti.


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This website does not condone the use of racial stereotyping or pandering to media sensationalism. The description of gangs by ethnicity is deemed necessary for discussion and to understand the origins and aims of organised collectives of youths and immature grown-ups. Please see a Press Council report on this issue if you are offended