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Walter lost his wife and daughters at Port Arthur. Thirty years on, this is his message
"Treasure every minute you've got with your family," Walter Mikac says. (ABC News: Glenn Mullane)
April 28 marks 30 years since a gunman killed 35 people at the Port Arthur Historic Site and surrounds.
The massacre led to the introduction of world-leading gun laws, including a civilian ban on automatic and semi-automatic firearms.
Last year's Bondi terror attack sparked a new wave of gun reforms, but a man who lost his family at Port Arthur has called some jurisdictions' response "pathetic".
Walter Mikac was in the darkest depths of grief, shock and anger.
As he flew from Hobart to Melbourne — where his loved ones were to be buried — he decided to pen a letter to the then Prime Minister John Howard.
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For ex-police officer Gill Dayton, some memories are crystal clear and others remain blurry.
She was in her mid-20s, four years into her career, when called to the Port Arthur tourist site on April 28, 1996, to respond to Australia's worst mass shooting.
"My first recollection is sitting in the car park outside the Broad Arrow Cafe with my work partner," she says.
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For many Tasmanians, Port Arthur will always be our "where were you when" memory.
A uni student living in Hobart, I was watching a soccer game when we heard the news on the radio and saw a helicopter fly overhead.
It was back at our residential college when we got a sense of how many lives those terrible events touched.
Frantic parents from around the country and overseas were ringing their kids' rooms. No one had mobiles back then.
If there was no answer, the calls came through to a common room, and if you were the closest, you picked up the phone.
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