Mackenzie’s Point lookout
Clifftop lookout on a coastal path, site of a somber Pride-flag memorial honoring victims of past hate crimes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mackenzie's Point lookout in Sydney explains the six stone terraces on the headland between Bondi and Tamarama, and the decades from the 1970s into the 1990s when gangs targeted gay men along this clifftop path. You'll hear the names of John Russell, Ross Warren and Kritchikorn Rattanajaturathaporn, and how police first treated their deaths, before a coroner revisited the record decades later. Listen for how the memorial built here in 2021 answers that long silence.
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