The Mafia in Australia: Part one. THE MAFIA IN AUSTRALIA: A SPECIAL TWO PART INVESTIGATION ON FOUR CORNERSPart One: Drugs, Murder and Politics. Monday 2. 9 June 2. It's one of the most secretive and powerful organised crime syndicates in the world, run by violent, ruthless criminals who make a fortune out of the drug trade. It's the Italian mafia. And it's operating right here in Australia, right now.

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In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, more than a year in the making, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations."I'm going to pull his f- ckin' head off. I'm going to eat him alive. Tell him that he can go get his f- ckin' coffin." Telephone intercept of an Australian mafia boss. Reporter Nick Mc.

Kenzie travelled to Italy to uncover the family and business connections between the Italian mafia and their Australian associates. A top anti- mafia prosecutor says they are "recreating a Little Italy in Australia". Here in Australia our investigations reveal how the mafia has infiltrated Australian politics at the highest levels by cultivating people in positions of power."This is a case study of what's wrong with the system." Anti- corruption fighter.

THE MAFIA IN AUSTRALIA: DRUGS, MURDER AND POLITICS, reported by Nick Mc. Kenzie and presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 2. June at 8. 3. 0pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 3. Wednesday 1st July at midnight. It can also be seen on ABC News 2. Saturday at 8. 0.

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KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: Tonight on Four Corners: drugs, murder and political influence, the Italian mafia alive and flourishing in Australia. ANNA SERGI, DR., UNI. OF WEST LONDON: The 'Ndrangheta has built its reputation on violence in order to keep the intimidation and to keep the fear and to keep the, the social control. NICK MCKENZIE, REPORTER (to Frank Costa): How corrupt was the system? FRANK COSTA, CHAIRMAN, COSTA GROUP: It was rotten to the core. CLIVE SMALL, FMR ASST. Watch Lola Versus Online Metacritic. COMMISSIONER, NSW POLICE: I can't believe our politicians are so dopey.

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I find that sort of extremely difficulty to understand: how they could be so nae. KERRY O'BRIEN: The Italian mafia has a long and infamous history in Australia. Remember the Griffith marijuana network, the drug lord Robert Trimbole, the murder of anti- drugs campaigner Donald Mc. Kay. That may all seem like ancient history but what we will show you tonight and again next week is that in the decades since then, the so- called "honoured society", 'Ndrangheta, headquartered in Calabria in southern Italy, has built a massive operation in Australia, bringing in huge quantities of drugs and infiltrating mainstream Australian politics. Tonight's investigation will take you inside long- running police surveillance operations to dramatically uncover just how brutal, ruthless and deeply imbedded the "honoured society" of 'Ndrangheta here really is. We were informed on Thursday that lawyers for one of the principal people featured in tonight's story, Melbourne businessman Tony Madafferi, would be seeking a court order to stop the program going to air. That didn't eventuate.

Reporter Nick Mc. Kenzie travelled to Calabria for this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media expos. NICK MCKENZIE, REPORTER: July 2. In the heart of Melbourne a group of men embark on a deadly mission: to kill a fellow criminal. They work for one of the most secretive and powerful mafia organisations in the world, unaware that police are watching their every move. MATT WARREN, DET. SUPT., AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE: We became aware that they were in possession of, ah, of, handguns; of firearms, ah, which gave us rise for concern.

Ah, and it became very clear to us that they were, ah, allegedly embarking on, ah, on a mission to go and, and do someone some significant harm. They were going to kill someone: that was, that's certainly, ah, the allegation. NICK MCKENZIE: Among the conspirators was Frank Madafferi, a suburban greengrocer with a reputation as a violent underworld figure.

Police phone taps recorded him threatening another criminal over a drug deal. FRANK MADAFFERI (phone conversation; translation): I'm going to pull his f****n' head off. I'm going to eat him alive. Fast Track: No Limits Full Movie Online Free.

Tell him that he can go get his f****n' coffin, get it f****n' ready because I'm going to go there with a f****n' 4. WD and f****n' get him and f****n' take it away. MATT WARREN: Well, certainly he was regarded with, with a degree of trepidation, with fear, um, with respect. Um, he was, ah.. His reputation for violence obviously had been established,NICK MCKENZIE: Detective Superintendent Matt Warren and his Federal Police team had accidentally stumbled across the murder plot as part of a top- secret organised crime investigation. They faced a terrible dilemma as they watched events unfold. The police would have to intervene to prevent any killing, but that would force them out of the shadows, blowing many months of painstaking surveillance work.

MATT WARREN: Myself and the team had been living and breathing this, ah, this investigation for months. Um, and so for, ah, for that to, to come unstuck at that point, um, would've been devastating: really, almost heartbreaking, ah, for the team and I, really.(Footage from AFP surveillance video)NICK MCKENZIE: The would- be hit men never completed their journey. AFP SURVEILLANCE TEAM MEMBER: Yeah, I'm getting all this on video. Constantly and it looks like they've attached the, um, jumper leads to both vehicles. NICK MCKENZIE: Their car broke down and they re- grouped, still unaware that Federal Police were shadowing them.

The surveillance was part of much bigger operation, which would ultimately expose the Calabrian mafia's powerful Australian network. It began a year earlier, when police made a massive discovery on Melbourne's docks.(To Matt Warren): Did you have any idea how big the importation would be? MATT WARREN: Not at all. Um, in fact, um, it was a, a surprise to everyone as we unpacked the container: just the volume of, ah, of drugs we were looking at. NICK MCKENZIE: Police had uncovered the world's biggest ecstasy shipment: more than four tonnes of the drug hidden in a container of canned tomatoes that arrived from Italy in June 2. ANDREA PAVLEKA, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, COMMONWEALTH DPP: The quantities of drugs were enormous. Ah, the amounts of money that were, ah, at stake were enormous.

Ah, it, it painted a picture of, um, a well organised group, ah, with international connections. MATT WARREN: None of us expected that we'd be on for the next, um, you know, 1. Footage of Matt Warren showing Nick Mc.

Kenzie a corkboard of photographs of suspects)MATT WARREN: Then, ah, you start to see the whole thing coming together.. NICK MCKENZIE: Police focussed their surveillance on the man they suspected had brokered the massive drug shipment: Pasquale 'Pat' Barbaro.(Footage from AFP surveillance video)POLICE SURVEILLANCE TEAM MEMBER: About to lose 'em, Ernie. NICK MCKENZIE: Police suspected Barbaro was a member of a feared and highly secretive international mafia syndicate, known as the 'Ndrangheta or "honoured society."POLICE SURVEILLANCE TEAM MEMBER: Now we've got Pat out, wearing the green T- shirt. NICK MCKENZIE: For months, police secretly filmed Pat Barbaro meeting associates in restaurants, parks and fruit shops in Melbourne - and even at a farm near his home town of Griffith in western New South Wales. MATT WARREN: Certainly what we saw with Pat Barbaro was that he was the point man, ah, for the Australian end.

He was the one, ah, who was actively involved in talking to the syndicates overseas, in meeting with them. NICK MCKENZIE: Of all his criminal associates, it soon became clear that Pat Barbaro treated suburban greengrocer Frank Madafferi with an unusual degree of respect. One tapped telephone conversation revealed that Frank Madafferi saw himself as the group's Melbourne boss.

Watch Record- Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Return to Earth Tonight. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planet’s new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a woman this weekend, touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan at 7: 2. Eastern). Whitson has spent the last nine and a half months in Earth orbit on the International Space Station, per the Washington Post, and counting her previous flights, will have logged 6. During her current mission, she also set the world record for oldest woman in space at 5. As the Post noted, she is also the only female astronaut to have commanded the ISS twice. According to the Post, one of the colleagues returning with her has spent even longer in the aether: Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who has cumulatively spent eight more days aloft than Whitson at 6. The current world record holder, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, spent some 8.

Russians have long dominated both cumulative and single- flight durations in space; the single longest spaceflight record holder is Valeri Polyakov, who spent just short of 4. As Tech. Crunch noted, Whitson was scheduled to return in June but “happily accepted” an invitation to stay on the ISS longer when Russian space agency Roscosmos canceled a joint mission to the station earlier in 2. Also accompanying Whitson and Yurchikhin on their way home is US astronaut Jack Fischer, who will have spent 1. Whitson wrote she will “hugely miss the freedom of floating and moving with the lightest of touch, especially those first few days after my return when gravity will especially SUCK,” the Post reported. She will also miss “the enchantingly peaceful limb of our Earth,” adding, “Until the end of my days, my eyes will search the horizon to see that curve.” Watch Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischer’s return in real time via NASA’s live feed below.[Tech.