The Brown committee had also investigated other names of the Calabrian clans: forexample, Joseph Roller, boss in Mildura, who died in 1964 with his two sons taking overthe leadership of the clan, and Domenico Alvaro, known as ‘Mr. Lenin’, who was bornin Calabria in 1910 and who became the boss of a clan in Sydney in 1960 after the death of Raffaele Mafrici (Ciconte & Macrı`, 2009). The clans of the ‘ndrangheta, in short, hadspread across Australia together with migrants and controlled various licit and illicit businesses. It is important to clarify that, according to the Italian Antimafia Prosecutors(DNA, 2012), Australia, together with Canada and the North of Italy represents today one of the three known ‘branches’ of the ‘ndrangheta outside Calabria. According to the DNA there is in fact an ‘Australian Crimine’,8headquarters of the ‘ndrangheta in Australia, which preserves the unity and the coordination of the organisation far from Italy. The ‘Australian Crimine’ does not allow the organisation to fall apart. When, for example, Vincenzo Angiletta attempted to fill the gap of power left after the death ofDomenico Italiano – boss of Melbourne known as ‘The Pope’ who died in 1962, – the Australian Crimine ordered his murder in 1963 to avoid the proliferation of ‘bastard’ clans (Spagnolo, 2010). The coordinating structure, in fact, does not allow open and blatant violation of the rules: it is prohibited – as confirmed in the latest report of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate (DNA, 2012, p. 124) for a similar recent case...that, after breaking or cracking the relationships with his locale and the ‘‘AustralianCrimine’’, a member, could ever get the chance to open a new ‘locale’ in Australia and become independent from the context, by seeking support from other authoritative members.Interestingly, in the second half of the sixties, when migration essentially stopped, there generation of existing mafia clans with new recruits from Italy also stopped. Accordingto Italian authorities, when Calabrian migration headed to European countries and theNorth of Italy (Ciconte, 2010, 2013), the Australian ‘ndrangheta, already formed, con-tinued to provide a perfect anchor for criminal activities away from the motherland and under the supervision of the Australian Crimine.The growth of the Australian ’ndranghetaOften compared to the famous ‘Five Families’ of New York are the ‘seven families’ ofAdelaide, the clans Sergi, Barbaro, Trimboli, Romeo, Nirta, Alvaro, and Perre, which are based in South Australia, but with branches throughout the country. The ‘seven cells’ have been repeatedly linked to the ‘ndrine in Calabria (Ciconte & Macrı`2009; Macrı`, 2012). Similarly, families like Arena, Muratore, Benvenuto, and Condello. Medici, Musitano, Pochi, Pelle, Polimeni and Agresta, among others, exercise their control in the rural areas (Ciconte & Macrı`, 2009; DNA, 2012). Their presence datesback to the early 1950s. In October 1951, a severe flood hit Platı`causing 18 deaths, ‘when the river Ciancio came, furious out of water, from the throat of Aspromonte, [and] tookaway two-thirds of the poor households’ (Sergi, 1994). The village back then comprised 7200 inhabitants of whom 5000 eventually chose to pack and leave (Ciconte & Macrı`,2009). The escalation of the local clans and the migration to Australia of many affiliates of the ’ndrangheta, from Platı`and nearby villages, disguised among peasants, workers,skilled craftsmen and enterprising merchants, ‘driven away by age-old poverty and naturalplagues’ (Sergi, 1989), dates back to that event (Manfredi, 1993). Calabrian migrants were in search of better living conditions legally or illegally obtained. New South Wales became the Promised Land. The presence of so many immigrants coming from the area of Platı`even led to the founding of a town called New Platı`(near Fairfield), west ofSydney (Veltri & Laudati, 2009).

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