Australia's political donations system makes politics vulnerable to the Mafia

By Stephen Bennetts, Anna Sergi
Updated July 31 2015 - 5:18pm, first published 5:00pm

The Calabrian Mafia represents a minuscule element within Australia's Italian and Calabrian communities, yet the recent Four Corners/Fairfax investigation has highlighted the organisation's capacity to exercise political influence in Australia wholly disproportionate to its size.

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