Bali bombings memorial services in Australia

Commemorative services will mark the 20th anniversary of the Bali Bombings next week.

A total of 202 people were killed on the Indonesian holiday island, including 88 Australians, on October 12, 2002.

Two bombs went off, one at Paddy's Bar and another at the nearby Sari Club, both in Kuta.

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The attacks, carried out by terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah, account for the largest loss of Australian lives from a single terrorist attack.

"Twenty years on, so many hearts are still tethered to that cruel night, every beat tempered by an abiding sorrow," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told parliament last week.

"Grief may soften with time but it does not fade."

The two main services will be held in Sydney and Canberra.

Coogee Bali memorial event

The beachside suburb of Coogee in Sydney lost multiple locals in the event, and before COVID-19 held annual events to mark the anniversary.

Eighty-eight white doves will be released as friends and family gather at the Bali Memorial at Dolphins Point, Coogee.

The site at Dunningham Reserve was renamed in honour of the six members of the local Coogee Dolphins football team who were killed along with friends and family members in the bombing attack at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali.

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"Our community has come together every year to remember those lost and support families and friends left behind. This year marks the 20^th anniversary and we will do so again. The victims of the Bali bombings must never be forgotten.

"We also pay tribute to those who survived, went searching and helped to rescue others," Councillor Dylan Parker, Mayor of Randwick, said.

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The 10am event will feature speeches, songs, laying of flowers, reading of the New South Wales and Tasmanian victims names, along with a minute silence.

A sand sculpture of hands releasing a dove will be present from sunrise at the north end of Coogee Beach.

Canberra Bali memorial event

The Australian Government will host a memorial service for survivors, family, friends and responders, at Parliament House in Canberra to mark the anniversary on 12 October 2022.

"We will pay tribute to the courage and resilience shown by so many whose lives were forever changed by these attacks," Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, said.

If you want to go, contact the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade via email or phone 1300 555 135.

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Bali event

A ceremony will be held on 12 October at the Australian Consulate General in Bali, Indonesia.

A total of 38 Indonesians were killed in the bombings.