Author: Alexander Lee

On the 16th of September 1972, Sydney was rocked by the detonation of bombs outside two Yugoslavia-affiliated travel agencies in George Street. These were the Adriatic Trade and Travel Centre, and the other at the Adria Travel Agency. Sixteen people were injured in this attack, two seriously. Politicians and the public were shocked by these nationalist outrages. Occurring in the leadup to the 1972 election, eleven days after the massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich, and the hijacking of a Swedish Airliner in Spain by Croatian nationalists, this bombing demonstrated that Australia was not immune to the threat of…