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Article: Terror Australis. (terrorism in Australia)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 1991
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Terror Australis
IF THIS ARTICLE DEALT WITH TERrorism in Australia only, it would be quite brief. Since terrorist record keeping became fashionable after 1972, Australia has had 38 incidents, with three involving fatalities:
* the assassination attempt by Ananda Marg (a terrorist organization based in India) on Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai in 1977, which resulted in the death of one police officer and two dustmen
* the assassination of the Turkish consul and his driver/bodyguard in Sydney in 1982
* the attempted bombing of the Turkish consulate in 1987, which resulted in one death
The remaining terrorist occurrences were ...