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Australian parliament votes to tighten gun controls after Bondi beach massacre

The gun buyback scheme aims to reduce the four million firearms in Australia

Evening Standard

Australia's Parliament debates new anti-hate speech and gun laws after Sydney attack

Australia’s Parliament has begun debating new anti-hate speech and gun laws after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month

The Independent UK

Australia PM hails ‘unity and urgency’ as parliament passes gun and hate crime laws after Bondi attack

House of Representatives and Senate pass both bills late on Tuesday at the end of a special two-day sitting

The Independent UK

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Trigger pulled on gun buyback as laws pass parliament

Gun reforms that Labor says would have banned the two Bondi shooters from owning firearms have passed parliament with support from the Greens.

AAP

‘A home left quieter, clothes still hanging in wardrobes’: emotional MPs pay tribute to Bondi terror attack victims

Anthony Albanese moves motion in parliament honouring courage of first responders and affirming right of Jewish Australians to live in peace

The Guardian - AU

PM may win gun fight, but battle looms with states

The prime minister looks to have shored up support for a national guns buyback scheme after the Bondi terror attack, but another fight still looms.

AAP

Teal MPs call out Coalition over stance on hate speech laws – as it happened

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Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has no plans to disband before Labor’s hate speech laws

Organisation singled out by home affairs minister as one that could be targeted by new laws targeting ‘hate groups’

The Guardian - AU

Promoter behind US rightwinger Candace Owens’ blocked Australia tour goes into liquidation

Ticketholders still waiting for refunds after immigration minister denied commentator’s visa weeks before national speaking tour

The Guardian - AU

Labor group urges Albanese to rescind invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog

Friends of Palestine criticise decision to invite Israel’s head of state to Australia in a sign of further strain within Labor movement

The Guardian - AU

NSW MP asks home affairs minister to investigate potential foreign interference after Israel ‘targets’ him in dossier

Anthony D’Adam says document wrongly accuses him of promoting antisemitic content and is ‘clearly designed to intimidate’

The Guardian - AU

Ultimatum for Nazi accused after bid to leave country

A man accused of displaying Nazi symbols has sought removal from Australia rather than wait for deportation but prosecutors want him to stay and face charges.

AAP

Police to carry long-arm rifles at final Ashes Test in Sydney amid heightened security after Bondi attack

Decision to carry the weapons at SCG not due to active or imminent threat but ‘to help the public feel safe’, NSW police chief says

The Guardian - AU

Israel offers training to counter terror inspired by IS

Israeli is extensively qualified to train Australian police in fighting terrorism and anti-Semitism, according to one of its senior government ministers.

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The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese insists his short, sharp review into the Bondi attack is enough. What can it examine and what is off limits?

Dennis Richardson will investigate the actions of security agencies and federal police. But critics argue only a royal commission can address the wider issue of antisemitism

The Independent UK

British man living in Australia set to be deported over neo-Nazi allegations: ‘He came here to hate’

The 43-year-old faces deportation after being charged with displaying Nazi symbols and promoting extremist ideology online

The Guardian - AU

NSW laws take effect – as it happened

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‘Very deep introspection’: unanswered questions for intelligence agencies on actions in lead-up to Bondi attack

Experts say inquiry should look into actions of Asio after it cleared one alleged shooter following 2019 assessment

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The Guardian - AU

New hate speech laws cracking down on ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says

Home affairs minister would not say whether specific phrases such as ‘globalise the intifada’ would be banned under proposed laws

The Guardian - AU

What changes are planned to Australia’s hate speech laws and how will they work?

The Albanese government’s five-point plan includes a new aggravated hate speech offence and powers to reject visas – but the details are scant

The Conversation

Albanese announces new crackdown on hate, in sweeping initiatives to combat antisemitism

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a suite of legislative and other action to combat antisemitism including new measures against hate speech and extra power to reject visas.

The Guardian - AU

Tony Burke has ‘full confidence’ in spy agency despite questions over Bondi attack

Asio facing scrutiny over investigation of alleged attackers as Jewish community in Bondi prepares for a second round of funerals

The Guardian - AU

Notes of support posted on Jewish bakery that announced its closure in wake of shooting – as it happened

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The Conversation

View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon

There are two glaring lessons for politicians from the Anika Wells’ entitlements affair.

The Guardian - AU

Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’

US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’

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