SURRY HILLS MASSACRE: 30 YEARS ON
Aug 24, 2020
2 minutes
Before John Howard’s landmark gun control laws were overhauled in 1997, mass shootings in Australia were not such unfamiliar territory.
The 1996 Port Arthur massacre – which saw 35 innocent people gunned down in Tasmania – was the turning point for firearm regulation Down Under, but six years earlier, Australia was stunned by a shooting rampage in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
On August 30, 1990, 35-year-old Paul Evers
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