Sydney siege
Family of Lindt cafe victim call for Bondi royal commission, ‘appalled’ by PM invoking siege
Albanese said he was “concerned” if his comments caused offence, but he had “simply made the point” that federal commissions had not previously been called.
- Brittany Busch, Mike Foley and Nick Newling
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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.
- Deborah Snow
Heartbreak and hope: five years on from the Lindt siege
Next month it will be five years since Louise Hope lived through the nightmare of the Lindt cafe siege that paralysed Sydney.
- Deborah Snow
Police Minister slams 60 Minutes over sniper's claim he could have shot Lindt gunman
Mark Davidson, known as Sierra Three 1, told the program he could have shot Man Haron Monis and saved the lives of Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson.
- Sally Rawsthorne, Jenny Noyes and Laura Chung
Chief sniper at Lindt cafe siege sues NSW Police
The man, who was the chief sniper during the Lindt Cafe siege, claims the lives of cafe manager Tori Johnson and barrister Katrina Dawson could have been saved.
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Man Haron Monis a chameleon who donned wolf's clothing
On a day when two innocent people are dead and a nation is struggling to absorb the shocking events in Martin Place, it is hard to care about who the person behind all this misery and terror was.
- Maher Mughrabi