 The Melbourne Turkish consulate bombing occurred on 23 November 1986; a car bomb exploded in a carpark beneath the Turkish Consulate in South Yarra, Victoria, killing the bomber who failed to correctly set up the explosive device.Levon Demirian, a Sydney resident with links to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, was charged over the attack and served 10 years.In 1989, two Skinhead youths, inspired by the Australian-based neo-Nazi National Action Group, fired shotguns at the home of African National Congress representative Eddie Funde in an assassination attempt.