01 The Road to Bondi | Father and Son
From Background Briefing by ABC Australia
March 13, 2026 · 42 min
About this episode
The episode explores the journey of a father and son from Hyderabad to Sydney, revealing the backstory behind their actions.
You think you know the story. You know how it ended. But you don’t know how it began. In the first episode of The Road to Bondi, reporter Josh Robertson traces the decades-long path that led a father and son to carry out their plan. He takes us from the narrow streets of old Hyderabad in India, where a young man grew up in a respectable family, to the western Sydney suburbs, where he begins to unravel.
People in this episode
Host: Josh Robertson
Topics covered
- father-son relationship
- migration
- family history
- cultural identity
- personal journey
Keywords
- Bondi
- father and son
- Hyderabad
- migration
- Sydney
- cultural identity
- family history
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Hyderabad, India, Sydney, Bondi
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