How the Mafia Secretly Ran an Entire Australian Town: Kings Cross

How the Mafia Secretly Ran an Entire Australian Town: Kings Cross Between 1967 and 1971 the government bussed 280,000 American servicemen onto one Sydney street. Kings Cross wasn't just a red-light district. It was licensed, taxed and sold on postcards, the place where a 1916 temperance vote accidentally built an underworld. Nothing here was ever secret. But on 4 July 1975 the publisher Juanita Nielsen walked into a club on Roslyn Street and vanished. Two men were convicted of conspiring to abduct her. Nobody has ever been charged with killing her. A coroner's jury found the police inquiry was inhibited by an atmosphere of corruption. Today, the strip is a ghost town and the El Alamein Fountain is restored. This is the story of an arrangement everybody could see and nobody would break. This is not just the story of Kings Cross. It's the story of what knowing is worth. #KingsCross #DarlinghurstRoad #AbandonedFactories #LostFactories #IndustrialDecline #AustralianManufacturing