From the distinctive Sharpies of the sixties to the Dandy Turks of the early ’90s, gangs have long inflicted terror on Melbourne’s streets. And some of them are ...

THE current gangs crisis isn’t new and calls for authorities to “get tough on crime” are misreading the situation, writes Theo Theophanous. I grew up in Broadmeadows and in the late ’60s, groups of ...

Set against a backdrop of Melbourne Sharpie subculture in 1972, precocious teenagers and wannabe poets/sharpies, Adam Pescado and his unwholesomely close friend Cliff Marr are on the loose on the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. YOU can pick an old sharpie gang member out a kilometre away - not by the scars on the face or busted teeth, but by their colour ...