A madman,a sawn-off shotgun and 18 hostages:How a killer terrorised my city for 17 hours

A madman,a sawn-off shotgun and 18 hostages:How a killer terrorised my city for 17 hours

Across from a TV studio and in one of Sydney’s busiest pedestrian precincts,a deadly terror attack played out on a scale Australia had never seen before.

  • byDeborah Snow

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  • byDeborah Snow
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  • byDeborah Snow
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Michael Mosley’s death reminded me of what an ER doctor once told me
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Leading Sydney silk Arthur Moses has joined the probe into the death of special forces soldier Jack Fitzgibbon,son of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon.

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  • byDeborah Snow
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  • byDeborah Snow
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  • byDeborah Snow