Hey dudes.

Part Four of my series on Italian-Australian criminals and the Calabrian Mafia's presence in Australia has recently gone up on GangstersInc; thought I'd share.

You can find it here;
http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ndrangheta-mob-war-in-australia

Thanks Meatballs ..How ya been? hows the family?

I'm living in Aus but from England and let me tell you the police here are pretty shit! All they seem to care about is douche bag bikie's moving a little pot and scuffling in bars, they have no real knowledge in my view of Italian OC here, there's no charts, rarely any busts that are done by Australian Federal police themselves, usually its from help from Italy.
Also you look at a guy like Carl Williams in Melbourne, sloppy amateur criminal who would get locked up in about a week if he was in NY etc!

Hey ya Dick. Fam's good man, bub's nearly 6 months. She poops a lot.



Thanks Luan. The thing is, it seems to be all in the semantics. Is there an Australian mafia? According to the G, no. They will concede, however, that there are Italian mafia elements active in Australia.

What they seem to be unable to fathom is the homegrown nature of the phenomenom. These are guys with solid links to the Old Country, for sure, but there is an unmistakably Australian dynamic to the local operators. The vast majority of top guys these days are born and raised in Australia, and while they maintain links to their original cells conducive to rackets like the drug trade in particular, they are very much doing their own thing in this country. It's almost sad to admit how embedded they are, and how little of a shit the Fed's give.

Part 5 should be up before too long, which will deal with more of the Liborio Benvenuto era of Melbourne. Eventually, I will get into a Sicilian element that was big in the 70's, the Mackay murder and 'Aussie Bob' Trimbole's exploits in the 80's, the 'Aussie Brasco" case of the 90's and eventually the shit that's gone on post 2000, up to today.