CANBERRA, ACT, April 28 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
Thirty years after the Port Arthur massacre, the terrible, indiscriminate cruelty of that day remains beyond understanding.
Australia pauses today to remember the 35 people whose lives and futures were so pitilessly stolen from them just because they happened to be there.
We think of everyone whose world was shattered by the loss of those who had been the bright centre of their lives, their love left desperately wrapped around an absence.
Our hearts go out to everyone who has lived with decades of loss, and every survivor and loved one who is no longer with us but was shadowed by an inconsolable grief for the rest of their days.
We think of a...