Sydney Mayors ‘Colleagues in Arms’ After Bondi Stabbings

The Sydney shopping centre where six people were fatally stabbed will re-open for a day of community reflection before retail trade resumes as a vigil planned for Bondi Beach. Several Sydney mayors gathered outside Westfield Bondi Junction in the city’s eastern suburbs on Wednesday afternoon, April 17, to lay wreaths and pay their respects to the community and the victims of the attack. Coogee MP Marjorie O’Neill said her community was in pain but pointed towards the tragedy as an “opportunity for all of us to come together.” Neighbouring Waverley Mayor Paula Masselos said she and Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone were now “colleagues in arms” in the wake of the attack at a church in his local area on Monday evening (April 15)....