Why did former Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone grant a Visa to an alleged member of the Italian mafia? Perhaps it has something to do with the tens of thousands of dollars his supporters have donated to the Liberal Party…
Mafia
The Italian Mafia’s new standover men: crocodiles
Because sometimes guys in suits carrying violin cases just aren’t scary enough: an Italian Mafia boss has been using a 1.7m crocodile to shake-down people for protection money.
Italian Mafia take out the trash. Literally.
Informants say the Calabrian Mafia have set up a lucrative radioactive waste disposal business — for a tidy fee, they will take a ship full of your toxic waste out to sea and blow it up.
Women break through Italian Mafia’s glass ceiling
Score one for the sisterhood: Female mobsters — or “Godmothers” — are on the rise amongst high-ranking members of Naples area crime families, as their husbands get knocked off or go to prison.
The Italian Mafia goes green
In Australia, the Mafia (such as it is) tend to focus on drugs and armed robbery, but in Italy, they’ve turned their attentions elsewhere: windfarms.
Vanstone’s underworld ministerial discretion
Surely a terror suspect not accused of any violence but merely of giving his cousin a SIM card is a greater potential threat to our security than a suspected mafioso, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Vanstone may have to walk over mafia visa
If the John Howard Liberals took money from the Exclusive Brethren then why would alleged Mafia dollars be refused? asks Barry Everingham.
