6 minutes and 11 seconds: Anatomy of Australia’s deadliest terror attack

19 Dec 2025, 18:00 by LinkedIn · Australian Financial Review

There is something odd about the silver car. It’s stopped, right blinker on, on Campbell Parade, the road that curves around Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach and its adjoining parks. There is an empty car space ahead, but another car backs into it. As cars change lanes to pass and pedestrians walk by, the driver takes a minute and 22 seconds to crawl, stopping and starting, the 80 metres to his final destination. Eventually, the car pulls left and into a bus stop, right beside a low, arched footbridge leading down to Archer Park, the Bondi Pavilion and the beach beyond. And for 10 seconds, nothing happens.

All this appears in a panoramic video seen by AFR Weekend and the police that covers much of this part of Bondi. From the junction with Beach Road, the cars parked along Campbell Parade and the beachside carpark, the tree-lined park and the sand beyond, it looks like any warm, fine summer Sunday evening at the most famous beach in Australia, and one of the best-known in the world.

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