1 week ago Sydney New Year’s Eve strikes more sombre tone as fireworks follow minute’s silence for Bondi

Terror attack victims remembered with menorah projected on to Harbour Bridge ahead of traditional dazzling displayAustralia paused to show solidarity with the Jewish community as New Year’s Eve festivities rolled across the nation.Weeks on from the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, hundreds of thousands of people around the Sydney Harbour observed a minute’s silence and shone a collective, defiant light following the recent atrocity. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks draw large crowds as people asked to ‘show defiance’ after Bondi attack

More than 2,500 police officers deployed on patrol on New Year’s Eve

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2 w. ago Australia PM Albanese accuses opposition of ‘politicising’ Bondi Beach terror attack

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has said he "regrets the politicisation" of the Bondi Beach terror attack amid rising tensions in parliament.

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3 w. ago From Dr Seuss to All Quiet on the Western Front: 19 books to help you find hope, sense and resistance in difficult times

Writers, activists and politicians on the books they turn to for wisdom and perspective – and to restore their faith in human natureAustralia is mired in grief, anger and division over the horrific act of antisemitic terrorism in Sydney. The attack in Bondi has reverberated internationally, tragically bookending a year that already challenged humanity, hope and the future of the planet.Indeed as 2025 ends it is defined by yet more abject and ignoble political, economic, technological and environmental derelictions of dire proportions. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘He knows a few people involved’ – SPFL boss reveals star wore black armband in personal tribute to Bondi terror victims

JIM GOODWIN revealed the black armband Zac Sapsford wore against Hibs was a tribute to the Bondi Beach terror attack victims. Aussie striker Sapsford is from Sydney and knew people who were caught up in the shooting on December 14 in which 15 lost their lives. The 23-year-old former Western Sydney Wanderers striker started the 1-1...

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3 w. ago Jewish bakery in Sydney closes over safety fears after Bondi Beach terror attack: ‘It breaks our hearts’

Australian authorities are trying to push through gun reforms after gunmen killed 15 people

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3 w. ago Mourners in tears at Bondi terror attack victim Eli Schlanger's funeral in Sydney

Eli Schlanger was one of 15 people killed when father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram opened fire on more than 1,000 worshippers at Jewish festival in Archer Park, Sydney

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3 w. ago Bondi Beach cop left blind in one eye after 'miraculous' recovery from being shot in head

Jack Hibbert, 22, was shot in the head and shoulder during the terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, with the trainee officer now facing a long and challenging recovery

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3 w. ago Jewish Better Homes and Gardens star closes down his bakery in Sydney in the wake of the Bondi terror attack and posts heartbreaking note on the door

Better Homes and Gardens star Ed Halmagyi has announced the closure of his Jewish bakery in Sydney following the Bondi terror attack.

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3 w. ago Bondi Beach shooting latest: Gunmen’s trip to Philippines just six weeks before attack under investigation

Ten-year-old girl was among those killed in attack at Hanukkah celebration

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3 w. ago Bondi Beach shooting latest: Isis flags found in gunmen’s car as NSW premier defends police response to terror attack

Ten-year-old girl was among those killed in attack at Hanukkah celebration

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3 w. ago Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State

Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett says a mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State."

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3 w. ago University of Sydney is slammed over its statement following Bondi Beach terror attack

The University of Sydney has been criticised for failing to deal with rising antisemitism on campus, as the university is slammed after releasing a statement following the Bondi Beach terror attack.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago 'It feels there's nowhere Jews are safe': Mancunian Rabbi working in Sydney speaks of devastation after Bondi Beach attack

'This is the worst day in Australian Jewish history'

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3 w. ago Bondi Beach's 'father and son gunmen': Pair 'pledged allegiance to ISIS before massacre', father arrived in country from Pakistan, son was deemed no threat by Aussie intelligence six years ago

The father and son gunmen behind Sunday evening's attack at the popular Bondi beach in Sydney allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State before the massacre.

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3 w. ago Brit woman who visited Bondi Beach describes horror moment gunshots began

A British woman who moved from England to Australia describes the terrifying moments at Sydney's Bondi Beach just before gunshots were fired in an attack that has shocked the community.

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3 w. ago Bondi Beach shooting victim named as talented French footballer

Footballer Dan Elkayam has been named as one of the victims tragically killed in the terror attack on Bondi Beach, Sydney.

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