2014 Sydney hostage crisis
The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis, also known as the Sydney siege and Lindt Cafe siege, occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the time, but Monis' motives were subsequently debated. However, the findings of the Coroner in 2017 deemed the event to be a terrorist attack.
Occupy Sydney
By approximately mid-April 2013 Occupy Sydney made a major part of its work "The 24-7 Homeless Hungry and Cold Peoples Resource", providing hot food and drinks, blankets and clothes, 24 hours a day, to those who needed them. The Occupation site became known to Australia Post as 56a Martin Place, Sydney, adjacent to the Channel Seven television studios.