Sadness, fear and mistrust in Perth’s Indigenous community after Invasion Day bomb scare: ‘It’s really heavy for our mob over here’

The incident is now being investigated as a ‘potential terrorist act’ but First Nations people say they are left feeling like ‘it’s not a big deal if it happens to Black people’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When an object was thrown off a balcony into a crowded square in the heart of Perth’s main shopping mall, it did not register as a threat, with many thinking it was an empty coffee cup or a piece of rubbish. But police have since said the device, which was allegedly lobbed into the middle of an Invasion Day rally on Monday, was a homemade bomb had the potential to explode and injure or even kill “many people”. Continue reading...