The Port Arthur massacre was shocking in every way but not least in the manner in which Martin Bryant showed no mercy, shooting Nanette Mikac and her daughters Alannah, six, and Madeline, three, even as she begged for her children to be saved.
On that deadly day on April 28, 1996, Walter Mikac, a young pharmacist, had been playing golf while his family enjoyed a picnic at the historic site on the Tasman Peninsula, not far from their home at Nubeena.
