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- Background
- Attacks
- Victims
- Aftermath and Analysis
- Effects
- Investigation
- Legacy
- See Also
- Further Reading
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Location
The main location of the incident was the historic Port Arthur former prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Perpetrator
In 1992, Martin Bryant—then 25—was bequeathed about $570,000 in property and assets by a friend, Helen Harvey, who left her estate to him following her death in a car crash. He used part of this money to go on many trips around the world from 1993 onwards. Bryant also withdrew many[quantify] thousands of dollars during this period. He used at least some of this money in late 1993 to purchase an AR-10semi-automatic rifle through a newspaper advertisement in Tasmania. Bryant's father had tried...
Motivation
Bryant's suspected motivations for the massacre were the refusal of the sale of Seascape by owners David and Noelene Martin and to become notorious, as revealed by his lawyer, on the Channel 7 program Sunday Night, air date Sunday, 6 March 2016. From the moment he was captured, he continually wanted to know how many people he had killed and seemed impressed by the number. Bryant is only allowed to listen to music on a radio outside his cell and is denied access to any news reports of his mass...
The events of this day were pieced together after investigation by police, then presented in court on 19 November 1996.
Fatalities
The following is a list of those killed in the Port Arthur massacre.
The Port Arthur tourist site reopened a few weeks later, and since then a new restaurant has been built. The former Broad Arrow Café structure is now a "place for quiet reflection", with a monument and memorial garden dedicated at the site in April 2000. The Australian Journal of Emergency Managementpublished several research articles on the respon...
Following the spree, the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, led the development of strict gun control laws within Australia and formulated the National Firearms Agreement, restricting the private ownership of semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns as well as introducing uniform firearms licensing. It was impl...
Martin Bryant pleaded guilty to having carried out the shootings and was given 35 life sentences without parole. Since 2015, he has been imprisoned in the Risdon Prison Complex.
Tasmanian Police records from the incident are in the care of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. A memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the massacre had over 500 people in attendance. The 2021 feature film Nitram is based on the event, and won the 2021 CinefestOZFilm Prize.
Bingham, M (1996) Suddenly One Sunday. Sydney: Harper CollinsLudeke, M (2006) Ten Events Shaping Tasmania's History.Hobart: Ludeke PublishingScott, M (1996) Port Arthur: A Story of Strength and Courage. Australia: Random HouseDonald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex while sitting on the toilet of a destroyed restroom cabin in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park. [27]A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones: in the book A Storm of Swords (2000) from the series written by George R. R. Martin, Tywin Lannister is killed by his son Tyrion while using the toilet.
In the wake of Mrs Lanza's stated plan to move out of Newtown in 2012, and perhaps stimulated by fears of leaving the "comfort zone" of his home, Adam planned and executed the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. [181]
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