Month: February 2026

 

 

As you probably know, on Australia Day 2026 circa 2,500 people took part in an entirely peaceful “Invasion Day” rally/protest in Perth’s Forrest Place.

Adjacent to Forrest Place, and overlooking it, is Forrest Chase’s elevated walkway – from which an IED (improvised explosive device) was hurled.

Had it worked as intended, the probable consequence would have been multiple injuries…perhaps, fatalities too.

By virtue of the bomb-throwing occurring in Perth, rather than in Sydney or Melbourne – and the bomb’s failure to detonate – Australia’s Sydney-centric, so-called “national” media were regrettably but predictably slow to grasp the seriousness of this profoundly disturbing incident.

Meanwhile, that afternoon, my beloved and I were blissfully ignorant of what had happened, as we enjoyed a long walk along the Rocky Bay cliff line, above the Swan River.

The waters immediately below the North Fremantle cliffs (where river and ocean are  separate, but very close to each other) were thronged with Australia Day revellers, and many millions of dollars worth of boats.

Goodwill abounded.

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