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Knife attack in Sydney

and some predictable reactions

Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
4 min readApr 13, 2024

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So Australia had a knife attack in Bondi Junction, Sydney, which has made world news.

Six people were killed, five on the scene at Westfields, one later dying in hospital. A 9 month baby is in critical care after also being stabbed.

There are several stories of heroism around the incident already emerging. From a man who leapt in front of his family to take on the attacker, deterring the attacker, who then changed direction.

There is the so far unnamed “bollard man” who defended the escalator to his level, with an aluminium bollard-like the type you use to fence off seating areas or create a way to queue at the cinema or airport.

Other people rained bollards down from the floor above, having the attacker forced to flee from that area.

Shopowners hurried in passersby to close down their premises so people could find shelter.

Then we have the lone female Police Officer who stalked the knife wielding idiot, ordered him to drop his weapon, and when the attacker came at her instead- took him down dead in one shot.

The story is still developing and us Aussies probably need a moment to pause and breathe, yet there is already plenty of social commentary on Foxnews and the like.

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Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Yaakov is a world traveller and is accused of being an Australian. Published several novels. He writes about travel, writing, geopolitics and trading.