4 h. ago Bondi beach shooting live: Minns defends response of officers ‘shot in the front’ as police say alleged gunmen had Isis flags in their car and had visited Philippines

NSW premier launches heated defence of police response to terror attack. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDreyfus says Australians rising to support community in wake of terror attacksThe former attorney general and special envoy for international human rights, Mark Dreyfus, just been on Radio National. He said this type of hatred will not divide Australia.People are going to unite to reject this hatred. It’s much worse than anyone’s worst nightmares.It’s the event that we in the Jewish community feared, the murder of 15 of our community members celebrating Hanukah ... Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Aussies hit back at 'insane' comments from Americans about Bondi Beach attack as controversial US commentator unleashes

US locals, including a controversial commentator, have sparked outrage over the suggestion.

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8 h. ago Bondi beach shooting live: Victoria announces $2m package to protect Jewish community and combat radicalisation; new record for blood donation

Authorities say 25 still in hospital from terror attack including children. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDreyfus says Australians rising to support community in wake of terror attacksThe former attorney general and special envoy for international human rights, Mark Dreyfus, just been on Radio National. He said this type of hatred will not divide Australia.People are going to unite to reject this hatred. It’s much worse than anyone’s worst nightmares.It’s the event that we in the Jewish community feared, the murder of 15 of our community members celebrating Hanukah ... Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Bondi beach shooting live: Australians set new record for blood donation; 25 still in hospital from terror attack including children

Dozens of mourners gather at Bondi Pavilion on Tuesday morning to pay respects. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDreyfus says Australians rising to support community in wake of terror attacksThe former attorney general and special envoy for international human rights, Mark Dreyfus, just been on Radio National. He said this type of hatred will not divide Australia.People are going to unite to reject this hatred. It’s much worse than anyone’s worst nightmares.It’s the event that we in the Jewish community feared, the murder of 15 of our community members celebrating Hanukah ... Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Top cop's disturbing admission about Bondi Beach gunman reignites calls for huge change to Australia

The Bondi Beach terror attack has sent shockwaves around the world and raised questions about how the gunmen were able to slip through the cracks.

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10 h. ago Bondi beach shooting live: 25 people still in hospital after terror attack, some with ‘devastating injuries’, health minister says

Dozens of mourners gather at Bondi Pavilion on Tuesday morning to pay respects. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDreyfus says Australians rising to support community in wake of terror attacksThe former attorney general and special envoy for international human rights, Mark Dreyfus, just been on Radio National. He said this type of hatred will not divide Australia.People are going to unite to reject this hatred. It’s much worse than anyone’s worst nightmares.It’s the event that we in the Jewish community feared, the murder of 15 of our community members celebrating Hanukah ... Continue reading...

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10 h. ago 'These attacks took place at opposite ends of the world, but to us, it feels like next door'

Members of Manchester's Jewish community have reacted to the Bondi Beach attack

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11 h. ago Bondi beach terror attack: thousands mourn at vigils around Australia as Albanese promises stricter gun laws

Twenty-five people remain in hospital following Sunday’s attack, in which 16 people, including one of the alleged gunmen, were killedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesVictims named so farWhat we know about the Bondi terror attackGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s national security agency Asio investigated one of the alleged Bondi shooters in 2019 over potential extremist links but decided he was not “a person of interest”, Anthony Albanese has revealed, despite two of the man’s associated being jailed.The prime minister said the Five Eyes intelligence network – the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand – would help investigate the deadly terrorist shooting which left at least 15 victims dead. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Bondi terrorist gets classic Aussie treatment as surfer stamps on his head

As Australia reels from the devastating attack on a Jewish Hannukah celebration, video has shown the moment one of the attackers is pummelled to the ground by irate passers by

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12 h. ago US Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia

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13 h. ago GMP issue statement to Manchester Jewish community after Bondi Beach attack

There will be extra officers and armed police patrolling the area

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16 h. ago Bondi shooting: what we know about antisemitic terror attack in Sydney | The Latest

Australia suffered one of the deadliest massacres in its modern history on Sunday when two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration at Bondi in Sydney. At least 16 people died, including one of the alleged gunmen, with more than 40 left wounded. The victims include a 10-year-old child, a Holocaust survivor and a London-born rabbi. The alleged gunmen behind the attack are a father-son duo, suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre. Naveed Akram, 24, was known to New South Wales police and security agencies and had been linked with an Islamic State cell. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is facing questions about gun law reform and security failings as Australians reel from the attack. Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian Australia senior reporter Ben Doherty Continue reading...

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17 h. ago As Sydney reels after the Bondi attack, Jewish Australians reckon with an ongoing sense of threat

‘I would hope that as a response, a million people were willing to march around this country to stand up and say that antisemitism has no place here’Victims of Bondi beach terror attackBondi terror attack: full reportFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesRabbi Benjamin Elton was driving back from co-officiating a wedding in Jervis Bay – a picturesque beach location about three hours south of Sydney – when he started to get the messages.His WhatsApp groups buzzed with reports – some accurate, some not – about an attack in Bondi, about the number and names of the wounded and dead. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago With their dead ‘still lying before them’, Sydney’s Jewish community searches for a way forward

‘I would hope that as a response, a million people were willing to march around this country to stand up and say that antisemitism has no place here’Victims of Bondi beach terror attackBondi terror attack: full reportFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesRabbi Benjamin Elton was driving back from co-officiating a wedding in Jervis Bay – a picturesque beach location about three hours south of Sydney – when he started to get the messages.His WhatsApp groups buzzed with reports – some accurate, some not – about an attack in Bondi, about the number and names of the wounded and dead. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Candles burn across Australia as the nation hopes light will defeat the darkness

Prime minister Anthony Albanese says ‘we are stronger than the cowards’ as people return to the scene of Australia’s worst ever terror attackVictims named so farWhat we know about the Bondi terror attackIn the fading light, they came back to Bondi, to light candles, to sing and to stand together, in solidarity and in defiance of the terror that had been visited upon their beach, their world.Across Bondi, and Sydney, and Australia, people lit candles in solidarity with the Jewish community which suffered the worst antisemitic attack in the country’s history when two gunmen allegedly opened fire on a Hanukah celebration at Bondi Beach shortly after 6:40pm on Sunday evening. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Bondi becomes focus of fury over Australia’s tide of antisemitism

Deadly terror attack on Jewish beach festival comes after sharp rise in incidents of hatred

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18 h. ago Mourners gather for vigil at Bondi beach in Sydney – in pictures

Australia is in mourning after gunmen opened fire on Bondi beach on Sunday, killing at least 15 people in an attack on the Jewish community during its Hanukah celebrations. One of the alleged gunmen was also killed during the incident Continue reading...

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19 h. ago No place for antisemitism in Scotland, says Jewish group after Bondi attack

A pair of gunmen killed 15 people at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday.

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19 h. ago Australia has a reputation for strict gun laws. How did the Bondi Beach shooting happen?

A massacre nearly 30 years ago led Australia to get tough on guns, now the Bondi shooting has reignited that debate

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19 h. ago Australia to toughen gun laws after 15 die in attack on Jewish festival

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says country will do more to combat antisemitism

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