Sydney Hilton Bombing, 1978
Today, February 13, marks the anniversary of the 1978 Sydney hotel bombing. The unsolved blast, at a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Goverment, killed three and wounded eleven when a trash bin bomb detonated after being emptied into a garbage truck.
“Conspiracy” looks at the lingering questions left by the bombing. For instance, police disposed of bomb fragments immediately after the attack at an unrecorded location, Australian Army bomb-sniffing dog teams were called off from securing the Hilton for reasons unexplained and at least one Sydney police detective made public claims of a cover-up. A 1991 resolution of the New South Wales parliament requesting a new inquiry into the attack was not acted upon by the Australian federal government.
