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New skyscraper blocks light hitting as intended on Perth's Bali bombing memorial

A design element of the Bali bombing memorial in Kings Park, which directed sunlight onto the names of the 16 Western Australians killed, has been undone by the construction of a skyscraper at Elizabeth Quay.

The memorial to the Bali bombing on the edge of the Mt Eliza escarpment was designed so that a shaft of sunlight would fall between two columns on October 12 each year, lighting up the plaque at sunrise and the names of those who lost their lives.

The plaque reads:

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