44 h. ago Australia’s gun laws have long been the envy of the world. They must remain so, especially after Bondi | Gideon Meyerowitz

As a public health expert and Jewish Australian, I urge our leaders to ensure gun legislation matches the world we live inGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter the awful attack at Bondi, Australia is facing several reckonings. There’s a long-overdue national focus on antisemitism, something that the Jewish community has been worried about as long as I have been alive. There’s the ongoing concern about national security, and questions about how something like this could have happened. But to me, as a public health expert and Jewish Australian, perhaps the most important conversation we are finally having is the one about guns.Public health experts have been warning about guns for at least a decade. In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, Australians came together and implemented a suite of measures to curb gun violence across the country. And it worked. Prior to 1996, we saw about one mass shooting a year. In the decades since, we have seen vanishingly few...

Politics

65 h. ago Gun crackdown and controversial protest laws to be passed in NSW despite Coalition split over firearms

NSW Nationals to oppose gun law reforms introduced in wake of Bondi attack, as Greens say protest laws are ‘draconian’ and may be unconstitutionalFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGun laws will be significantly tightened and protests restricted for up to three months in New South Wales at the behest of the police commissioner, under an emergency set of laws introduced to the state parliament in the wake of the Bondi shooting.The bill is being debated in the lower house on Monday and is expected to pass the lower house on Monday afternoon with the support of the NSW Liberal party, and pass the upper house on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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8 d. 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 d. 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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9 d. 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

Society

9 d. 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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9 d. ago Australia pledges to get tougher on gun laws after 15 killed at Bondi Beach

Australia vowed it would implement stricter gun laws on Monday as it began mourning victims of its worst mass shooting in almost 30 years.

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9 d. ago New gun laws for Australia: PM announces push for new limits on firearms after Bondi massacre in what would be the biggest shake up since Port Arthur

The Prime Minister said on Monday the matter would be discussed at National Cabinet.

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9 d. ago Australia to review 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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1 week ago Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack will force it to confront its surging number of weapons

There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every weekFor almost three decades, Australia’s gun laws have been recognised as among the most stringent – and effective – in the world.After the horror of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre that killed 35 people in Tasmania, Australia’s then conservative government stared down the gun lobby to introduce restrictions that led to a dramatic decrease in the number of guns. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons

There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week For almost three decades, Australia’s gun laws have been recognised as among the most stringent – and effective – in the world.After the horror of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre that killed 35 people in Tasmania, Australia’s then conservative government stared down the gun lobby to introduce restrictions that led to a dramatic decrease in the number of guns. Continue reading...

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