
Melbourne's Gangland Killings: The Smiling Assassin Carl Williams w/ guest Sami Shah
The Underworld Podcast
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The Mafia in Melbourne
There's a lot of suburbs in Melbourne that have an Italian community is there. The unions back then, particularly the painters and dockers union, was made up of Irish workers. And they work together to kind of set up a mafia crew. But by and large, that's how things were panning out. It's when drugs come along, really, in a big way that things change. So especially with heroin and meth, you've got Vietnamese and Chinese gangs bringing them over. There's speed by the bikers. They're used as kind of couriers for the bigger crime syndicates.
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