Rebels Motorcycle Club
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| Motto | "Australia Outlaws Elite" RFFR |
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| Location | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Founder | Clint Jacks |
| Leader | Alex Vella |
| Leader title | National President |
| Type | Outlaw motorcycle club |
| Region | Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Spain, Fiji, Malta |
| Marque | Harley-Davidson |
| Membership | 2,000+ |
| Website | www |
| Abbreviation | RMC |
The Rebels Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club in Australia with around 70 chapters and 2,000+ members nationwide making it the largest club in the country. It was founded by Clint Jacks in Brisbane, Queensland in 1969 and was originally named the "Confederates". Their insignia is a Confederate flag with a cap-wearing skull and 1% patch in the centre. The Australian government and law enforcement consider the Rebels to be a criminal organisation but the club claims to be a group of motorcycle enthusiasts rather than gangsters. The National President is currently former Maltese boxer Alex Vella.
Its constitution states it is a non profit organisation which promotes the riding of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and stipulates that members must own one and that drugs are "looked down on" within the club and "something you and your club can go without" with heroin and smoking methamphetamine being totally taboo. Members are only permitted to join the club once and never to join another motorcycle club.
It claims to be "the biggest all big twin Harley-Davidson club in the world". Membership could be bought via a coupon in oz bike magazine where by you clipped the coupon and sent it away with the agreed amount and your patches were received in the mail at a later date.
In November 2000, police raided Rebels clubhouses in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia and seized drugs, firearms and even a crocodile. A number of people were arrested on charges relating to the items seized.
Two Rebel associates were arrested for the murder of Bandidos member Ross Brand after their clubhouse was raided, on 16 November 2008. Brand was shot dead outside the Bandidos clubhouse in Breakwater, Victoria on 22 October.
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