The Whitlam Government came to office shortly after the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Sydney bombings involving Croatian separatist groups in Australia, including the Ustaša. One of the first acts of the new government was to help US-led efforts in the United Nations General Assembly to counter the rise of 'political violence' to person and property around the globe. These efforts failed because the Non-aligned Movement states believed that political violence or terrorism was not inherently illegitimate, given resistance and revolutionary activities in the former colonies.