Often compared to the famous ‘Five Families’ of New York are the ‘seven families’ of Adelaide, 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 & Macr?`, 8 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 0(0) 2009; Macr?`, 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 & Macr?`, 2009; DNA, 2012)
