Dozens of people gathered in Sydney's CBD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Hilton Bombing. Source: AAP
COUNCIL workers and police officers have laid wreaths and flowers outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney as they remembered three men killed in Australia's first terrorist attack.
Garbage collectors Alex Carter and William Favell were killed on February 13, 1978, when a bomb concealed in a rubbish bin exploded outside the hotel.
Police officer Paul Birmistriw was guarding the entrance of the hotel, where a Commonwealth Heads of Government regional meeting was to be held.
He was fatally wounded in the explosion and died nine days later.
Members of the United Services Union (USU), NSW police, and family and friends gathered on George Street in Sydney's CBD to place flowers in front of the memorial plaque and observe a minute's silence.
USU spokesman Graeme Kelly said Mr Carter and Mr Favell were known to be "larrikins" and "dedicated family men".
A council worker who had worked with the men described them as "good blokes".
NSW Police Association president Scott Weber said Mr Birmistriw had been a "first-class constable".
Though two men were convicted over the bombing, the crime remains something of a mystery.
In 1989, Evan Pederick - a former adherent of Ananda Marga, the obscure Hindu sect suspected of being behind the bombing - confessed to planting the bomb.
He accused fellow sect member Tim Anderson, who had been jailed in 1979 over the bombing but pardoned in 1985, of putting him up to it.
Pederick was convicted and walked free in 1997, after serving eight years in a NSW jail.
Mr Anderson, now a university lecturer, was reconvicted, but cleared on appeal in 1991, with Pederick's evidence discredited.
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