[6][7] Many of the migrants to Australia ended up in Griffith, New South Wales and made the area into an important wine-producing region.

[10] In a large scale operation in the night of 13 November 2003, thousands of carabinieri stormed the town, discovering hidden underground rooms and hallways and arresting 131 people.

Remote-controlled trap doors lead into houses, some of them uninhabited, enabling the 'ndranghetisti to escape from the police at a moment's notice.

Some of the tunnels emerge outside the town close to woodland, while others open into animal pens and barns on local farms.

[11] In July 2006, the town council was dissolved on orders from the central government and replaced by a prefectoral commissioner because it had been infiltrated by the 'Ndrangheta.