Carlo Oreglia

If Carlton and Brunswick are the heart of the 'ndrangheta in Melbourne, the port is where its blood flows. It was here that an infamous drug seizure in 2007 drew attention to the hidden and dangerous world of trafficking. The notorious Tomato Tin bust at the Port of Melbourne was at the time the…

The first official 'ndrangheta murder was in 1945 in Fitzroy and twenty years later the Queen Victoria Market was rocked by a mafia war. But it was on Lygon Street, Carlton's main thoroughfare and the cradle of the Italian community, that the bosses gathered: not only to plot the murder of a rival,…

Mildura is a beautiful regional town known for food, wine and tourism. But it was here in the 1970s and 80s that the first "mafia tribunals" were established, and it was here that some of the more gruesome murders took place. Carlo and Anna try and untie some of the contradictions of this border…

After a visit to the Coleambally plains - site of the infamous drug busts of the 1970's - it's time to enter Griffith to investigate the disappearance of Donald MacKay. The mysterious fate of the aspiring politician captured the attention of Australia, while the resulting investigation left…

To understand the rise of the 'ndrangheta in Australia, you can't just stay in the big cities: tracing its origins means hitting the road. Carlo Oreglia and Anna Sergi head up the Hume highway and through the Coleambally plains toward Griffith, the NSW town that was the centre of a national case in…

According to legend one hundred and two years ago, the Honoured Society made its way from Calabria to Australia. From that moment on, a series of murders, disappearances and spectacular drug busts showed how the 'ndrangheta took hold Down Under over decades. But why, and how did the 'ndrangheta, or…

It was an international custody dispute that caught the attention of our national media in 2012. Four girls, aged between 9 and 15 years of age, suddenly found themselves on TV and newspapers after a battle about their custody under the International Hague Convention. Their Australian mother, separated from Tommaso Vincenti, a man from Tuscany, had taken their children in Australia for what their father thought would be a holiday. Once down under, the mother settled on the Sunshine coast with th…

Qantas has announced a major aircraft order that could shift the future of Australia's travel industry. Under what it is calling Project Sunrise, the company is ordering 12 Airbus A350 aircraft capable of flying direct from Australia to any other city in the world from late 2025.

During the Second World War, over 18,000 Italians were taken prisoner by the Allied Forces and transferred to Australia, where they worked, with many creating strong bonds with the locals. Family historian Joanne Tapiolas is retracing their stories, to return to the descendants in Italy and…

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