Police Took Nine Days to Call Bombing at Indigenous Rally a Terror Attack

Police Took Nine Days to Call Bombing at Indigenous Rally a Terror Attack

Australian police waited nine days to classify a homemade bomb thrown at an Indigenous rights rally on January 26 as a terror attack. The device, designed to cause injury, landed near 2,000 Aboriginal people. Police had been warned in advance but didn't alert rally organisers. A government inquiry is now investigating whether police failures and racism left Indigenous communities at risk.

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