When one hears the word mafia they most often think of the New York mafia in America or the various mob families it Italy but seldom does Australia come to mind. The Calabrian mafia also known as the Ndrangheta one of the worlds most powerful and secretive criminal syndicates has deep roots in Australia. Based out of Calabria in southern Italy they have become one of the countries leading organized crime groups and are quickly becoming a world wide force. They now have roots in multiple countries including Canada and the United States but perhaps their deepest ties outside of their native Italian homeland are in Australia.
The mafia has flourished in Australia according to law enforcement infiltrating the highest levels of politics and embedding itself into the countries core. The mafia in Australia has a long violent history that has been kept relatively quiet in respect to mafia news from other parts of the world. Australia has long been a haven for Italian migrants and they created what authorities call a “Little Italy” with in the country. This Italian community quickly became a place for the Australian Ndrangheta to make roots and begin to grow carrying on blood ties through generations.
This two part documentary called “The Mafia in Australia” looks into the history of the mafia in Australia and its rise to power. It contains some fabulous interviews and takes a very in depth approach as to how and why the Ndrangheta has chosen Australia as such a trusted operational hub. They dive into the murder and mayhem that has haunted the country for years and remains today despite recent efforts by authorities against the Australian mafia. It’s a really interesting look inside the Australia mob which is still unknown to many worldwide.
Very well done this was a solid watch and its amazing how the Ndrangheta have expanded now to so many area’s and hold such a solid grip now in many of those with a lot less exposure then one would think.
It’s not just Australia they are everywhere
Indeed definitely have strong hold now in Canada and we are seeing more ties to the NY families as well so seems they are making even more inroads in the States too.
They are dominating the coke trade I Europe and sending huge amount of drugs to US and Canada. They are supplying all of Europe I am talking spain, France germany the UK all the cocaine is coming from these guys They have guys in Germany in 2007they whacked 6 guys in some 30 year old argument. Spain is filled with these guys
I can agree wth tht also, not to mention the fact tht one of the reason of thre success is because they hold true value to the rules & regulations of tht way of life. It’s really hard for the authorities to keep up wth them, they change players more than a football game & they dnt tlk .
Agreed they really have held tight to the old school Omerta rule and have been very hard for law enforcement to really get a grasp on exactly how they are operating and who controls what where.
Very few rats and they have thrived everyone was looking at the sicilian mafia in the 80s and 90s because of there war against the government and the cammroa in the early 2000s books like gommora led to public pressure to hit the cammora hard. Everyone since the 80s has known the Sicilian mafia and cammora have existed but the Ndghanta no one knows anything about the Ndghana is very similar to the sicilian mafia in its rules and I think it has a very long history which no one knows about. I mean the Ndghanata were only added to Italy’s version of the rico act in 2010after they killed some goverment offical. Calbria and italy as a whole is 40 years behind Sicily in its fight against the mafia the siclians has loads of anti mafia teams the Ndganta has none italy and the world knowledge of the Ndghnata as the sicilian mafia was in the 80s and ten years ago the knowledge would been compared to the siclian mafia in he 50s thats how bad things are
perché chiamate gli informatori “rats”, se qualcuno ha voglia di staccarsi dall’abitudine criminale (non importa la che è la causa), dovremmo incoraggiare questi uomini in pericolo, con le parole più adatte invece di ammonire, Che Dio li benedica!