'Don't say his name' — 30 years on from Port Arthur

The Radio National Hour · Apr 28, 2026 · 55m

Today marks three decades years since a gunman opened fire at Tasmania’s historic Port Arthur jail killing 35 people. It was an unfathomable tragedy forever etched into the psyche of a nation. In the wake of this horror, we’ve learnt how to mourn and honour the dead, but we struggle with how to speak - or not to speak - of the perpetrator. In 2012 Tom Teeves lost his son in a mass shooting in Colorado. Since then he's made it his mission to prevent the fame and notoriety that so often motivates mass murderers. Palestinians have cast a ballot in local elections in Gaza and the West Bank for…