Organised crime has a long history in Australia. For more than a century, criminal groups have accumulated vast fortunes, committed countless acts of intimidation and coercion and, at times, extreme and spectacular violence. But, as James Martin (HRA Tobacco Harm Reduction Adviser & Deakin Uni Criminologist) and Ed Jegasothy (Senior Lecturer, Sydney Uni) highlight in their new piece in The Conversation today, if we look back at the responses to organised crime and black markets in Australia’s history, we can see governments are making many of the same mistakes now as they did a century ago…
