A new ABC true crime podcast, Firebomb, sees actor Crispian Chan investigate what happened when his family’s Chinese restaurant was bombed by terrorists targeting the Asian community.

In 1988 a campaign of terror is getting under way in Perth with Chinese restaurants being firebombed in the dead of night.

Thirty-five years on, most of us have never heard about it, even though it’s one of the few sustained and co-ordinated terrorism campaigns in Australia’s history.

In this new season of ABC’s Unravel True Crime, Chan and co-host ABC reporter Alex Mann uncover buried weapons, secret informers, punks, ninjas, and political manoeuvres.

They ask: how could this happen in Australia? And are we ignoring the warning signs that it could happen again?

The seven part series is available on the ABC listen app.