Image: Port Arthur Memorial, Tasmania
Duration: 2:00
Emotions Canvassed: Sadness & Fear

Introduction: April 28th this year marked the 18-year anniversary of the deadliest shooting in Australian history, the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. 35 people were killed that day, and Bernie Woods was just 200 metres away from the café where Martin Bryant began shooting. It’s something he’ll never forget.

*Music
Bernie: The café was about 200 metres away, so that’s where we heard the shots. 
*Gun shot noises
Bernie (cont.): We didn’t take much notice to it; we thought it was probably a reenactment or something like that. 
*Break
When we walked into this gift shop the first thing that was apparent were the workers at the gift shop. 
* Shop bell ringing 
We asked them if something was wrong, and that’s when they said about the shots, and that it wasn’t a reenactment.
They’d been trying to ring the café and nobody was answering, and that’s when it started to come quite apparent that something had happened, and they called the police from there. 
*Break
You know, when the awareness of the situation came out, there was certainly a fair bit of fear I think then. We had learnt that there was a gunman and that people were dead, we learnt that after a short time, and he was still loose. 
So yeah, I mean there was obviously a lot of fear at that time.
*Break
I remember it was quite a few months later, one night I just broke down and cried. Um, yeah, that was quite a few months afterwards. 
*Break
Probably when it really struck me was when they had Bryant cornered in the house and we were still in this gift shop, and the police finally came. This was six hours later, and we were released from the gift shop. We went down in a file of people and but there were just picnic settings sitting on the tables and nobody around, so it just became really apparent that people just fled for their lives and just how big it actually was.
*Music fade out.


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