Quote:16 September 1972 Bombing 16 Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing - The bombing occurred in Haymarket, Sydney and injured sixteen people.[1] The perpetrators of the attack were believed to be Croatian separatists.[2]
13 February 1978 Bombing 3 11 Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing - a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, which was hosting the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting. Two garbage collectors and a police officer were killed and eleven others were injured. As a result of the bombing, ASIO's powers and budget were greatly expanded. It was also a motivation for the formation of the Australian Federal Police.[3]
17 December 1980 Shooting 2 Sydney Turkish Consul General assassination - Sydney Turkish Consul General Şarık Arıyak and his security attaché Engin Sever were assassinated by two people on motorcycles wielding firearms in Sydney. The Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide claimed responsibility but the culprits were never identified and no charges were laid. The Consul General was gunned down despite having taken precautions in the form of not travelling in the official consulate Mercedes Benz vehicle and instead being chauffeured in the trailing security attaché's car.[4]
1980s Bombing Jack van Tongeran and the ANM - Throughout the 1980s, West Australian neo-Nazi group "The Australian Nationalist Movement", led by Jack van Tongeren, engaged in a series of bombings of Asian restaurants and businesses, political violence, murder of a suspected informant and other acts to intimidate the Asian population. Van Tongeren was imprisoned until his release in the early-mid 2000s. He resumed his activities until he was re-arrested in 2004 as part of Operation Atlantic, prompting a judge to order him to leave the state.[5]
23 December 1982 Bombing Sydney Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club bombings - The two bombings occurred within five hours of each other. The initial case led to a single arrest though charges were later dropped. In 2011, the NSW police and Australian federal police reopened the case citing new leads.[6][7][8][9]
23 November 1986 Bombing 0 (+1 perpetrator) Melbourne Turkish consulate bombing - a car bomb exploded in a carpark beneath the Turkish Consulate in South Yarra, Victoria, killing the bomber who failed to correctly set up the explosive device. Levon Demirian, a Sydney resident with links to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, was charged over the attack and served 10 years.[10]
1995 Bombing 1995 bombing of the French Consulate in Perth, Western Australia - terrorists firebombed the French Consulate in Perth.[11]
16 July 2001 Shooting 1 Abortion clinic attack (2001) - Peter James Knight, described as an "obsessive anti-abortionist" who lived alone in a makeshift camp in rural New South Wales, attacked the East Melbourne Family Planning clinic, a privately run clinic providing abortions, carrying a rifle, and large quantities of kerosene and lighters. He shot and killed a security guard at the clinic before his capture and arrest. He was charged and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 23 years. Though Knight was not charged with any specific terrorism offences, Australian terrorism academic Clive Williams listed the attack amongst incidents of politically motivated violence in Australia.[12]
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Funny, the Wikipedia list starts in 1972, not 2009. I wonder why Moses chose to limit his list to post 2009? Oh, that's right, the stuff before 2009 includes NON-MUSLIM culprits. Funny that, hey?
Now if we look overseas, we see in the list of
Christian Terrorists, a list which is much longer than Moses is willing to accept, dating back to 1605 CE. Funny that, hey?