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'Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park.Among the dead, a fifteen year old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily-armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash.
'Brothers in Arms tells the extraordinary story of this murderous outbreak, from its vicious beginnings in the closed world of Sydney's motorcycle gangs to its inevitable end in death and imprisonment.'
Source: publisher's blurb
Adaptations
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form
y
Bikie Wars : Brothers in Arms
( dir. Peter Andrikidis
)
2012
Australia
:
Screentime
Network Ten
,
2012
Z1833118
2012
series - publisher
film/TV
Based on the non-fiction book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey, Bikie Wars is a dramatised account of the events leading up the 1984 Milperra massacre, a shoot-out between members of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Comancheros and the Bandidos, a group formed from a splinter group of former Comancheros: the massacre left 7 people dead and 28 wounded, and led to 63 murder convictions, 147 manslaughter convictions, and significant changes to NSW gun laws.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Milperra, Bankstown area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
