The Real Romper Stomper

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The current rise of Antisemitism and “White Power” groups in Australia is not unprecedented.

In fact, as recently as 1992, Russell Crowe’s career was launched by his role as a brutal skinhead in the seminal Australian film Romper Stomper.

Andrew Kirby is one of the men that movie was about and he joins us to talk about Neo Nazism in Australia, and his subsequent internal journey to reform.

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Andrew Martin Kirby

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

John Clifford White's Romper Stomper theme appears at the beginning of this episode.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	It was the late 80s and you did not want to be catching public transport, you did not want to be caught out if you were a different race if you were all white.
1:17.5	And in a gang we turned the whole Melbourne into a war zone and it was our playground and we bashed stabbed,
1:25.2	stabbed, killed, burnt everything and anything that we possibly came across until we got pinched and it was a critic.
1:37.0	Filmmaker Jeffrey Wright has frankly changed his story over the years on the question of how closely the plot and the characters of his breakout 1992 film Rompa Stomper were based on reality. In his director's commentary for the movie's 20th anniversary DVD
1:56.5	release, Wright states that the script was based loosely on events involving people in
2:01.6	10 or so neo-Nazi gangs active around Australia in the 1980s.
2:06.6	He's at pains to specify that the idea neither sprang from his becoming aware of a young man
2:12.4	by the name of Dane Sweetman in
2:14.1	Melbourne, nor does the movie depict Sweetman's exploits or those of his
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