Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) riotous behaviour; also as adj.

1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Sept. 14/1: Another time Jacky was ‘up’ for drunkenness and ‘righteous,’ and the P.M. gave him a week.
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Nov. 44/2: [A] passin’ cop lumbers me for righteous behavior.
1919		V. Marshall World of Living Dead (1969) 83: Three charges agin’ me—righteous, vag, an’ resistin’.