The multi-million dollar carve up of the estate of the Rebels bikie gang boss has begun between rival heirs of the property and trust fund fortune set to make all Gino Vella's children wealthy.
Cops fear a full-scale war could break out between Australia's largest gang the Rebels and their bitter rivals the Comanchero after an alleged feud in a notorious bikie 'royalty' family.
When Jesse Vella stood to farewell his father, he must have appeared the picture of loyalty.
Speaking to other mourners at Gino Vella's January funeral, he
Gino Vella did not have the public profile of his older brother Alex but was a long-standing senior member of Australia's largest bikie gang - as well as being a bricklayer, cafe owner and family man.
Waste export ban on mixed plastics now in force
As of Thursday 1 July, waste mixed plastics can no longer be exported from Australia. All future waste plastic exports must be licenced and as a minimum be sorted into either a single polymer bale or processed pellet/flake to a recognised industry specification.
The National Waste and Recycling Industry Council (NWRIC) supports the COAG export ban on unprocessed waste materials, and its members are working hard in collaboration with state and federal governments to upgrade existing sorting capacity and build new processing facilities across the country. Many of these we expect will come online over the next 12 to 18 months.
Inside the world of our outlaw bikie gangs From patches to presidents, codes of honour to cruelty, this is an inside look at the ugly underbelly of our outlaw bikie gangs.
Crime by ANTHONY DOWSLEY
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Subscriber only They're the "big six" Australian outlaw bikies gangs, the members of which fascinate but strike fear into ordinary Aussies. Because of their trademark secrecy, little is known publicly about the ugly underworld workings of the Bandidos, Hells Angels, Comanchero, Mongols, Rebels and Finks bikies gangs. Until now that is. Herald Sun crime writer Anthony Dowsley provides the ultimate run-down on our outlaw bikie gangs.