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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Australian state lawmakers approve sweeping gun bill after Hanukkah terror attack
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Mourners visit the site of a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion after the clean-up of floral tributes following seven days of mourning, a week after the Bondi Beach terror attack targeting a Hanukkah event, in Sydney on December 22, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)
Lawmakers in Australia’s most populous state approve a sweeping bill cracking down on guns after the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in decades.
The Upper House in New South Wales, where 15 people were killed last week in an antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah festival on Bondi Beach, voted 18-8 to pass the legislation.
“There being 18 ayes and 8 nos, the question is resolved in the affirmative,” Ben Cameron, president of the Legislative Council of NSW, says after the vote.
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