Port Arthur 25 years on: A dark pain that never leaves For those caught up in the Port Arthur massacre, time has still not healed the emotional scars of that horrific day.
Crime by Ellen Whinnett
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Subscriber only Tony Rundle vividly recalls flying towards Hobart on that autumn day in 1996, a sick sense of foreboding hanging over him. The then-premier of Tasmania had been preparing to drive from his farm outside Devonport in the state s north-west to the capital ready for the week s Parliamentary sitting. It was Sunday, April 28. A phone call came through about 2.30pm from my chief of staff saying there were reports of an incident at Port Arthur, Rundle, now aged 82, told News Corp.