Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

For the past couple of years, leaders in Australia’s Jewish community have been seeing a rise in antisemitism and urging the country’s leaders to act.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday the government would seek to introduce new legislation to crack down on hate, after gunmen opened fire at a Jewish event in Sydney on Sunday,

The police said on Monday that they expected to bring criminal charges against the surviving suspect, who is in a coma after being shot by the police.

Australian leaders promised on Monday to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 15 people died in the attack,

Australian leaders promised on Monday to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 15 people died in the attack,

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reacts to attack on Jewish community on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

A day after the world-first law took effect, the country’s social media feeds were flooded with comments from people claiming to be under 16.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took aim at young people parading themselves on social media a day after a world-first ban on under-16s went live, saying the rollout was always going to be bumpy but would ultimately save lives.

Australian’s opposition leader launched a new antisemitism, extremism and counterterrorism task force in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack — as she accused the government of failing to heed the warnings of its own antisemitism report.