Archive for April, 2006

PORT ARTHUR – REMEMBER THE VICTIMS, REMEMBER THE LESSONS

On Friday 28 of this month ten years will have passed since 35 people died and 19 people were wounded when Martin Bryant used a military-style rifle to shoot people attending the historic Port Arthur prison centre in Tasmania. Hundreds of other Australians had died in previous gun massacres; particularly in 1987 when a total of 32 died in six gun massacres - indeed, next year will mark the 20th anniversary of that worst year for gun masacres in Australia's history; the year of Melbourne's Hoddle...