UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 2, 1996
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Australians mourn for massacre victims
The Associated Press
HOBART, Australia — Tiny flames flickered at the base of a simple wooden crucifix yesterday, one candle for each of the 35 people methodically slain by an enraged gunman Sunday as they visited a popular tourist site.
Hundreds of mourners prayed at Hobart's St. David's Anglican Cathedral for the victims, ages 3 to 72. And as residents of Australia grieve for the dead, their anger only grows toward the murder suspect.
Martin Bryant, 28, was badly burned in a house fire he set just before police arrested him. Now, under heavy police guard, he is being treated for burns in the same hospital that is caring for survivors of Australia's worst massacre in modern times.
Hospital officials say people have called to complain that Bryant should not receive any medical treatment. In an act of protest, 20 nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital called in sick yesterday, said hospital chief executive Lindsay Pyne.
Doctors said Bryant, who was charged with murder at a bedside hearing, might require plastic surgery and could remain hospitalized for another week.
"This is an event that has shaken the core of this country in a way that no individual crime has done
in my lifetime."
John Howard
Australian prime minister
Yesterday's tearful state service started with a minute of silence observed throughout Australia, which includes the island of Tasmania 300 miles southeast of Melbourne.
At 10:30 a.m., streetcars stopped running, financial exchanges suspended trading and schools interrupted classes.
Inside the Anglican cathedral where the service was nationally broadcast live on television, 800
friends, relatives and neighbors of the victims sat with the nation's leaders.
Before the service, Prime Minister John Howard, who has promised to tighten gun controls, visited the death scene, 30 miles south of Hobart.
Bryant is accused of shooting sightseers and staff at the picturesque Port Arthur colonial prison complex on Sunday, using high-powered assault weapons. He then barricaded himself inside a guest cottage with three hostages, setting fire to the house Monday morning.
"This is an event that has shaken the core of this country in a way that no individual crime has done in my lifetime," Howard said.
Police said they captured Bryant when he fled the inn after his clothes caught on fire. The charred bodies of the hostages were found in the building's ashes.
Even tiny children were not spared.
"In an afternoon my whole life has been erased," said Walter Mikac of Hobart, whose wife Nanette and two daughters Alannah, 6, and Madeline, 3, were gunned down.
THE NEWS in brief
Changes in ocean environment threaten whales
The Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia — The world's whales are more threatened by climate change, ozone depletion and pollution than by whaling, International Whaling Commission chairman Peter Bridgewater said yesterday.
International efforts to revitalize whale populations, such as the establishment of sanctuaries and the IWC whaling ban, has led to a
much healthier general population, Bridgwater said.
Aside from a few nations, such as Japan and Norway, enthusiasm for commercial whaling has waned.
"The biggest danger to whales is ... global change," Bridgewater said, addressing a lecture series on whales at the National Science and Technology Center. "By global change I mean not only climatic change, but also other effects, such
as the ozone hole, and the spread of pollutants."
Bridgewater said evidence of the direct effects of chemical pollutants on whales, dolphins, and porpoises was still circumstantial. The IWC has urged its member countries to focus on researching and monitoring the issue.
An IWC meeting in June will consider a report on the likely impact of climate change.
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