It began as a trickle. By late morning on Sunday, the flowers had multiplied. On Monday, the pile of floral tributes became a small sea of bouquets and messages of solidarity from – and to – a reeling community.
The Sydney suburb of Bondi has been rocked by the fatal stabbings of six people inside Westfield shopping centre on Saturday. In the aftermath has come bewilderment that a place “of love, of fun, of peace” – as former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull put it – had been “shattered by this incomprehensible act of cruelty and violence”.
