Anyone know if this country’s gangsters ever mixed it up with Italy or USA?

Been watching youtube channels of these names I have never heard but seemed to run the show down under.

I assume there wasn’t only due to the fact of it not being a country with many densely populated areas BUT, our northern friends in Canada is not densely populated either.

Anyone ever see a connection with Australia?

George Freeman was a Sydney bookmaker who had connections to the Chicago Outfit through Joseph Dan Testa. Same goes for Lennie McPherson. Back in the days LE even called these guys the "Australian contacts of the American Mafia" but I don't really know how much actual truth that statement holds.

After that era it seems there aren't really a lot of North America to Australia connections regarding organized crime. There are however plenty of connections to Europe.

Organized crime in Australia (and New Zealand) these days sees the involvement of a few major groups: Ndrangheta, outlaw motorcycle groups, Lebanese, Assyrians, Pacific Islanders and Vietnamese. Every now and then Chinese organized crime (mostly in New Zealand) and Albanian organized crime (there was an Albanian group active in Adelaide for some time) makes the news, but generally speaking it's not as pervasive.

There are Ndrangheta cells active in Sydney and Melbourne and there used to be one active in Perth as well. They're part of major clans and they absolutely have contacts throughout Italy and the rest of Europe. These are large international networks.

Outlaw motorcycle groups are arguably the biggest criminal factor in Australia. They have contacts with Italian organized crime regarding drug shipments; in 2014 for instance there were talks of a shipment of 51 million xtc pills to be send by an Italian clan based in Belgium to Australia, which was to be distributed by bikers. All the big outlaw motorcycle clubs are active in Australia, like the HA's. Membership of the big known clubs are mostly local Aussies.
Australia also has plenty of homegrown outlaw motorcycle clubs. Rebels MC are well known for instance, and they're a club with many members of Maltese origin. Even got a chapter in Malta and Maltese criminals also have plenty of Italian organized crime contacts so that's how they stay connected as well.
NZ also has homegrown clubs, of which the Head Hunters are the biggest in status.

Lebanese OC in Australia are local crime families that are based their neighborhoods in Sydney and Melbourne. Most of these families have a Sunni background with roots in Tripoli, but there are also Maronite Christian crime families active.
There are Lebanese crime families active in for instance Germany and Sweden, but these families mostly have a Mardelli/Mhallami background or a Shi'ite background so I don't think they are in contact with the Lebanese criminals in Australia seeing these are completely different clans. In Montreal however the Lebanese crime families are from a Maronite Christian background, but I haven't heard of them getting into contact with their Australian counterparts but it's possible.

Assyrian OC is also local in Australia, mostly in Sydney's southwest. There's Assyrian OC in Europe (mostly in Sweden) and in the USA as well (Detroit and San Diego) but I haven't heard of them getting into contact with their brethren in Australia.

Regarding Vietnamese OC on the other hand I did hear about Vietnamese criminals based in Australia getting into contact with Vietnamese criminals based in the UK. These days Vietnamese criminals mostly operate illegal marihuana grow houses and traffic in counterfeit goods and they do have cross-border networks (even if it's just for sharing know-how).

Samoan and Tongan gangs are mostly organized street gangs and their biggest presence is in New Zealand, but I did read about Samoan and Tongan gang members in NZ getting into touch with their counterparts in the USA. Both the USA as well as the Oceanic countries are deporting criminals back to Samoa and Tonga so I guess that's where they get to know each other. These contacts seem to involve the meth and the guns trade. Pacific gangs in Australia and NZ work a lot with bikers, as do the Lebanese gangs.

Chinese OC mostly involves representatives of known Triad groups and Albanian OC are also large clans that stay into contact with other clan members throughout Europe. These are large international networks. Russians are supposed to have a presence as well, but I think the Russian OC activity mostly involves money laundering.

Australian 'ndrine answer to Calabria, they have set up a governing body similar to the ones in Canada and Germany. The territory is divided between six bosses in South-Australia, New South Wales, Canberra, Griffith, Melbourne and Adelaide.
One of the bosses Paolo Alvaro is the cousin of one of the most important bosses in Italy Carmine Alvaro.

Camorra and Cosa Nostra also have a smaller presence.

What Hollander said. Indeed, the relationship with the ndrangheta are fairly active, and actually the division in 6 areas was down to the 80-90s - now things might have changed or it is just adapted to newer time. Those in WA (ndrine) have some relationship with Canada as well. Some ndranghetisti are also bikers, especially in Sydney. One ndrangheta family in Melbourne has married an Australian crime family...so yea, still alive and kicking.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrangheta_in_Australia#/media/File:'ndrangheta_in_Australia_2017.jpg

They where high in weed and heroin traffick,the second season of the serie Underbelly is focused on Trimbole ndrina.

in the 80s' though, today it's meth and cocaine.

This is a 2015 Firefox Media documentary on the ndrangheta in Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JURRFvRPlAc

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).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266384268_The_evolution_of_the_Australian_'ndrangheta_An_historical_perspective

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