Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hoolie n.¹

a hooligan.

1966		R. Stone Hall of Mirrors (1987) 181: You are a hooley like all preachers. [Ibid.] 312: That knock-nose hooley made a hobo of me.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 45: So he flogs the candelabra for an undisclosed but substantial sum and hits good old Yarratown again and is once more [...] claimed by that hooley of a mock-merchant, Gerald The Fox.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 114: That’s the lot your hoolie mates was out and about with.
2016		Guardian 27 Oct. 🌐 Suggs was an aspiring football hooligan. There was nothing special about that back then, Suggs says – they were all hoolies.

In derivatives

hoolified (adj.)

(Aus.) acting like a hooligan.

1996

J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 287: [A]nyone who might assume that the name given to Wellington’s annual version of the Melbourne Cup was made up by a nice innocent cocky’s missus searching for a variation of ‘cup’, ‘plate’ or ‘slipper’ would have to be a fair dinkum hoolified dingbat.