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Australian surfing group

The Bra Boys are a gang centred on surf culture, founded and based in Maroubra, an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the 1990s. The gang has gained notoriety through violence and alleged links to organised crime, as well as some community activism.

The Bra Boys achieved national and international media attention in 2007 with the release of a feature-length documentary entitled Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker than Water, written and directed by members of the group, and narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Russell Crowe.^[1]

Origins

The Bra Boys are held together by surfing as well as community ties to the Maroubra area.^[2] The group is often linked with the North Maroubra Surf Riders (NMSR), with which a number of its members are associated.^{[citation needed]} In an interview on Triple J radio, Koby Abberton pointed out that "Bra" is a reference to the gang's suburb, Maroubra,^[3] and partly after th