<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prime Minister </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/anthony-albanese" rel="" target="" title="Anthony Albanese"><span>Anthony Albanese</span></a><span> has paid tribute to the lives lost when "just another Saturday" last year turned into Australia's worst killing spree in years at </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi" rel="" target="" title="Westfield Bondi Junction"><span>Westfield Bondi Junction</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On the afternoon of April 13, 2024, Joel Cauchi killed six people and injured 10 more when the 40-year-old </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-junction-stabbing-memorial-placed-at-site-of-bondi-junction-stabbing-ahead-of-anniversary/043d4729-85ac-42c7-84c7-7b439069f813" rel="" target="" title="unleashed his attack at the busy shopping centre"><span>unleashed his attack at the busy shopping centre</span></a><span>. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His victims were: 25-year-old Dawn Singleton, 27-year-old Yixuan Cheng, 30-year-old Faraz Tahir, 38-year-old Ashlee Good, 47-year-old Jade Young and 55-year-old Pikria Darchia.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/westfield-bondi-junction-attack-first-anniversary-stabbing-survivor-muhammad-taha-speaks-out/19b9ea62-8eca-4ff3-b586-fc0edda1fee6"><strong><span>Bondi Junction stabbing survivor living with 'mental trauma' one year on</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tonight, on the eve of the first anniversary, Albanese addressed the nation in a video message to "pause to remember those whose lives were stolen on what should have been just another Saturday". </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Hold on to all they were and all they had ahead of them. This should not be an anniversary," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"They should still be here – with their families, their friends and in their communities, with all their hopes and dreams and joys that are the very essence of life.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/westfield-bondi-junction-stabbing-anniversary-anthony-albanese-addresses-nation/a3e828d3-daed-478e-87c4-f40d3ab8d318" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"As we grieve them, we think of everyone who wakes each morning and feels the pain of their loss anew.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Their hearts irrevocably tied to that day when the world was upended and normality was taken from them and we think of those who live with the memories, from the shop staff to the shoppers to the first responders."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-election-2025-jacinta-price-denies-make-australia-great-again-remark-peter-dutton-deflects-questions/0da92bf4-993c-46ce-8385-ef02efba52f4" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Jacinta Price denies 'Make Australia Great Again' remark, Peter Dutton deflects</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The tragedy was Australia's worst killing spree since January 2017, when a man drove his car into a busy street in Melbourne's CBD and killed six people and injured 27 more.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Albanese said it was a day that "cruelty was met with courage", as shoppers rushed to each other's aid, with some even assisting the first police officer on scene Inspector Amy Scott, who shot Cauchi dead shortly after arrival.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Amid the terror, people were tested in ways they had never imagined, yet their first instinct was to help each other," the PM said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"To offer comfort, compassion and protection to friend and stranger alike and some even ran towards the danger.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In the hours and days that followed, we saw a community united in grief, reaffirming for all of us a core truth: that love is greater than hate."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/ai-art-damaging-australian-artists-livelihoods-experts-say/ad613fc2-fc6f-40b5-8bf6-126f9266a12f" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>How AI art is 'damaging' Australian artists</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Finishing off his address, the Prime Minister said the memories of the six people killed would live on and they will be remembered.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The memories of those who didn't come home one year ago live on in the love they created, and in the hearts that they touched," Albanese said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Remember them today and every single day."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>NSW Premier Chris Minns, the Waverly Council and the Scentre Group, who own Westfield, will observe the first anniversary at Bondi Junction tomorrow.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Officials and emergency services representatives will lay floral bouquets at the commemorative display boards that have been installed at Oxford Street Mall.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Readers seeking support can contact </span></strong><a href="https://www.lifeline.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Lifeline"><strong><span>Lifeline</span></strong></a><strong><span> on 13 11 14 or </span></strong><a href="https://www.beyondblue.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Beyond Blue"><strong><span>Beyond Blue</span></strong></a><strong><span> on 1300 22 4636.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a 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