SYDNEY Oct 11 Kyodo Australia wil...

SYDNEY Oct 11 Kyodo

Australia will not really recover from the Bali bombings that killed 202 tribe including 88 Australians, but Australians bear no malice towards the Balinese the community Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Saturday forward the eve of the first year anniversary of the attack.

Howard, speaking to reporters in Sydney before departing for the Indonesian resort island ahead of Sunday's memorial services there, called his visit partly ''an opportunity to reassure the clan of Bali that no malice is borne towards them on the Australian people.''

''They were plenteous the victims of this attack, the two in a direct perception and the impact on the lifestyle and the economy of that island as were others,'' he said.

centurys of Australians who lost family and friends in the bombing of the Sari Nightclub have already arrived in Bali. Memorial services will also be held across Australia.

''The gatherings in Bali will, I faith provide comfort and reassurance to those who squandered so much, that their peer Australians continue to have feeling for them and with them in their ongoing grief,'' Howard said.

The prime minister said he does not regard it as a abash that Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will not be attending the memorial services. ''I understood all along that she wouldn't flow for the cultural reasons outlined. I don't regard that as unusual. I completely understand her reasons.''

Australians have become more wary and conscious since Bali, he said. ''But we haven't abandoned our essential values, we're still optimistic, adventurous, to a station carefree, perhaps not quite in such a manner much as in the past, on the contrary nonetheless essentially an open, carefree tolerant people''

A individual released Saturday shows one year after the Bali attacks, Australians remain nervous about overseas travel.

Research through Roy Morgan reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) plant that Australian tourist numbers dropp from more than 100000 to 69000 in the six month following the bombing.

Although there are signs of redemption Australians are still wary of leaving Australia, Roy Morgan chief executive Michele Levine told the ABC. ''It's showing that basically steady though some people are thinking about going back to Bali, the impact has been long greater on people intending to travel all from one side of to the other the place.''

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