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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017
1983

In September 1982, “bandits struck at the ANZ Bank in Barkly Street, Footscray and pulled off the
biggest bank robbery in Australia’s history.”

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However, people of South Australia and Victoria endured a terrible tragedy that occurred in
February 1983.

Ash Wednesday, 16 February 1983, is a day most Australians will remember as bushfires swept
across South Australia and Victoria resulting in the loss of 75 lives and the destruction of more than
3,000 buildings.

https://www.ffm.vic.gov.au/history-and-incidents/ash-wednesday-1983

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider