It’s hard to describe the anger and hurt First Nations people have felt since a man threw a bomb into a crowd of men, women and children on 26 January in Boorloo Perth. In the crowd were old folks, babies in arms, toddlers in prams, gathering peacefully as our families do every year on our National Day of Mourning.
The Western Australian police say he threw a fragment bomb containing screws and ball-bearings, the kind designed to send shrapnel flying and cause maximum damage. It is due to luck and presumably the incompetence of the bomb-maker that it did not explode.
