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Sunny Abberton
Sunny Abberton (born in Maroubra, Sydney), is a founding member of the Australian surf tribe the Bra Boys. Together with his brothers, Koby, Jai, and Dakota, Sunny Abberton achieved national and international attention in 2007 with the release of a feature-length documentary entitled '' Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water'', that he wrote and co-directed with another member of the Bra Boys. Biography and surf career Sunny Abberton is the oldest of four boys. The Abberton men were born in the eastern suburbs of Sydney to a heroin addicted mother and her criminal boyfriend (who was not their biological father). Their grandmother, Mavis Abberton a.k.a. "Ma", opened her beach house to the boys. Soon the house was overflowing with other young boys that needed a safe place to spend time. "If anyone started 'Bra Boys' it was Ma," says Sunny in the Bra Boys documentary.Abberton, Sunny. Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker Than Water. Documentary, 2007. With the young men spending all of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroubra, New South Wales
Maroubra is a beachside suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 10 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Randwick. Maroubra is the largest suburb within Randwick City Council by both area and population;. Maroubra Junction is a locality in the centre of the suburb. History 1800s Maroubra is a local Aboriginal word meaning ''place of thunder''. In 1861, the first house was built in the area by Humphrey McKeon. A number of other settlers arrived on the land in the 1870s to work on the wool scouring works located at the northern end of the bay. ''The Hereward'' The suburb first made headlines on 6 May 1898, when the ''Hereward'', a fully rigged iron ship weighing 1,513 tons was caught by the gale-force winds and shipwrecked at the northern end of Maroubra Beach while heading north toward Newcastle. The shipwreck remained on the beach for a number of years unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bra Boys
The Bra Boys are a gang centred on surf culture, founded and based in Maroubra, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales 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. Origins The Bra Boys are held together by surfing as well as community ties to the Maroubra area. The group is often linked with the North Maroubra Surf Riders (NMSR), with which a number of its members are associated. In an interview on Triple J radio, Koby Abberton pointed out that "Bra" is a reference to the gang's suburb, Maroubra, and partly after the street slang for brother. Some members of the gang tattoo "My Brother's Keeper" across the fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koby Abberton
Koby Abberton (born 2 June 1979 in Maroubra, New South Wales), an Australian former professional surfer, is a member of the Australian surf gang the Bra Boys. He rose to local prominence in 2006, when he was found guilty of perverting the course of justice in an incident surrounding his brother Jai Abberton, who was charged but found not guilty of the 2003 murder of stand-over man Anthony 'Tony' Hines. Together with his brothers, Abberton achieved national and international 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 Bra Boys. In November 2008, Koby Abberton was jailed for three days by a US court after being found guilty of assaulting an off-duty police officer in a fight outside a nightclub in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2021, Koby appeared on the TV show '' SAS Australia''. Biography and surfing career Abberton was born in the south-eastern Sydney beach-side suburb o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jai Abberton
Jai Abberton (born in Maroubra, New South Wales, Maroubra, New South Wales), an Australian former professional surfer, is a member of the Australian surf group the Bra Boys. He rose to local prominence in 2005, when he was charged but found Acquittal, not guilty of the 2003 murder of stand-over man Anthony 'Tony' Hines. Despite Abberton admitting to shooting Hines, Abberton claimed that he had no choice as Hines was going to rape the girlfriend of Abberton, and kill them both. Abberton's defence was able to establish reasonable doubt of murder and that Hines was a violent man that employed standover tactics and was a rapist. It was alleged that the motivation for Hines' actions was a mistaken belief that Abberton had slept with Hines' wife, Rachel Gibbons. Abberton was convicted trial in absentia, ''in absentia'' by Magistrate Linden and fined $533; prosecutors allege that Abberton was tasered three times in the course of the incident, which occurred at the Byron Bay police stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota Abberton
Dakota Abberton (born in Maroubra, New South Wales), an Australian surfer, is a member of the Australian surf gang the Bra Boys. Together with his brothers, Koby KOBY (940 AM) was an American radio station broadcasting an Oldies format. It was licensed to Cedar City, Utah. The license and the callsign have been deleted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. History The station used to be known ..., Jai, and Sunny, Dakota Abberton achieved national and international attention in 2007 with the release of a feature-length documentary entitled '' Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water'', that was written and directed by the Bra Boys. Robbery and assault charges In March 2011 Abberton was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery, affray, destruction of property, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and drugs charges following the assault and robbery of a woman. In April 2011, he was granted strict conditional bail after his lawyer argued that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the circulatory system is also known as ''peripheral blood'', and the blood cells it carries, ''peripheral blood cells''. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves. Albumin is the main protein in plasma, and it functions to regulate the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. The blood cells are mainly red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (also called WBCs or leukocytes) and platelets (also called thrombocytes). The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
