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Australia to mourn Sydney Hanukkah shooting with flags at half-mast, says PM
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A police officer talks to a member of the public, following a shooting the day prior at Sydney's Bondi Beach, December 15, 2025. (AP/Mark Baker)
Australia will lower flags to half-mast in a national gesture of mourning for the 15 people killed in a mass shooting on Bondi Beach, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
“Flags will fly at half-mast across the country today as we pay our respects to all those lost and all those injured,” Albanese says.
“Australia will never submit to division, violence, or hatred, and we will come through this together,” he adds. “We refuse to let them divide us as a nation.”
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