Mike Amor

It was a private memorial by design.

In fact, after the 25th anniversary, the community thought perhaps they wouldn't hold another memorial to mark an anniversary.

But as it got closer to this anniversary, it was clear that people still wanted that chance to remember their loved ones, to remember what happened that day.

So they held it.

It was a very quiet service event.

one survivor, Jane Schofield, spoke quite passionately about the burden that day still carries on her, but also how love hopefully will win out over evil at the end of the day.

We certainly didn't hear Martin Bryant's name ever mentioned, but we heard the roll call of the 35 victims.

And what it demonstrated for me was that there were multiple members of families lost that day

There were families having lunch in the Broad Arrow Cafe or like Nanette Mickack and her daughters, multiple families torn apart in the space of just seconds.

So that was very poignant for me.

And then they laid wreaths at the bottom of a Huon Pine cross that has been erected here for a number of years that carries the names of all the victims.

So 30 years on, it's still very tough for these people.

Yeah, he just said, do something, do something.

And to John Howard's credit, he did something.

He banned guns, which meant hundreds of thousands of guns were taken off the streets.

Remember that Martin Bryant used a weapon of war that was legally bought

to kill so many people.

It was a weapon that civilians shouldn't have the right to carry and it's the type of weapons that we see Americans carry out massacres with.

So he got those off the street and I think most people applaud him for that, his politics aside.

And I think that's one of the things that the survivors