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I put Mark Buttler from the Herald Sun on to Dr Sergi’s “Familiness” paper and he wrote a story on it. It pretty much just summarises the paper and expands a little on some historical stuff. The four family types that make up Australia’s mafia Australia’s Honoured Society can be broken down into fo...

There was an Antonio Giorgi killed in 1970 in Woodville, NSW. Giorgi is a fairly common name in Calabria, so maybe not related, but it's striking to always see the same names appear in Australia (Giorgi, Romeo, etc...) https://crimestopperssa.com.au/media-releases/the-30-year-murder-mystery-of-anto...

New developments in the effort to have Domenic Perre posthumously exonerated from involvement in the NCA Bombing, I’ll try and post the articles but newscorp continues to make it a pain to do so. Alphonse Gangitano saw suspected head of Australia’s Italian Mafia before NCA bombing occurred A leaked...

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"WE ALL WORK HARD": LEARNING ABOUT YOURSELF AND THE "ONORATA" IN AUSTRALIA (PART TWO)
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"YOU ARE CALABRESE, NOW APOLOGISE!": LEARNING ABOUT YOURSELF AND THE "ONORATA" IN AUSTRALIA (PART ONE)

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HI all thought you might want to know that I launched a new blog on my research fieldwork in Australia. This is part of my latest research in Australia and is an impact activity, meaning an activity that is meant to bring research to different audiences via different means of engagement. I am still...

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Sorry coming late to this Steve! As you know I am starting a blog, but won't necessary discuss actual cases in there, not directly with names/surnames I believe, it's not my role. Considering the murder of Latorre and considering the latest news about the fires, I am inclined to believe that surely ...

HI all thought you might want to know that I launched a new blog on my research fieldwork in Australia. This is part of my latest research in Australia and is an impact activity, meaning an activity that is meant to bring research to different audiences via different means of engagement. I am still ...

Phenomenal question indeed. I have never looked at Chicago (but that might change soon as I am planning a book on the Italian-American mafia in the East Coast..). The thing that stands out for me is the misspelling of the surname Archino which not only is not a frequent surname but it's not Calabri...

Lubrichi is a small district of Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte, my mum's birthplace! This is great info about Di Pietro. Lubrichi and Santa Cristina are very close indeed to Oppido, but again, the links you seek between these Di Pietro and the Madafferi brothers probably developed already in Melbourne...

Hi Anna. David Critchley here. I remember when you visited the John Jay College in Manhattan a few years ago. I have the huge luxury of being able to spend long years doing my own organized crime/Mafia research. I have copies of many of your pieces. I came across your discussion of the legal differ...

In Perth indeed one of the groups/locale is historical and recognised as such, another one is local, existing only because of Perth and how things are in Perth, independent, they do their own things. You can say they are a ndrina bastarda, but eventually they can't be really stopped. The surname sho...