Sydney standoff shakes Australian society
Here's a story I wrote for DW in the hours before midnight on the sleepless night of the Sydney Siege - the Australian news event of the year. I was producing for Al Jazeera English and was braced against a tree near the police cordon, contending with nearby cockroaches. We’d settled into the tenth hour of the siege and Australian social media had just lit up with the #Illridewithyou tag.
- Reporter / Journalist