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Port Arthur massacre 25 YEARS ON ‘I STILL HEAR GUNSHOTS’

It was an icy cold autumn morning on April 28, 1996 when Tasmanian-born teenager Anita Bingham asked her dad Steve to drop her off at the Port Arthur Historic Site.

The 17-year-old had recently begun working as a waitress at one of the two cafes at the former convict settlement. It was a day that would define the rest of her life – Anita could not have imagined the horror about to unfold.

“I was.

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