ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the threat of terrorism and its consequences for working people and businesses in the city of Melbourne. Simulations of hyperreal terrorism saturate media and popular culture, and images of terrorism since 9/11 have been unavoidable. The stories, opinions, and letters produced and printed in the major Australian newspapers use 9/11 as the 'mother' of all events through which all terrorism events are analysed. Australians and Australian workers are among the best placed witnesses in the world. In the Herald Sun, of November 9, 2001, D. J. Fraser argued that people of Middle Eastern origin are being targeted as potential terrorists in the Australian community. The Bali bombings and the anti-terror raids were reported incessantly in the days that followed the terror scares, and re-emerged from time to time for several months after the events. The black museum makes the city a stage beneath which witnesses and victims can be in the audience of the theatre of terrorism.
