Australian PM apologises over Bondi attack, calls for tougher hate laws

PM Anthony Albanese is besides pushing for stricter weapon authorities successful the aftermath of the nation’s worst wide shooting successful decades.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised to the Jewish assemblage implicit past week’s Bondi Beach attack, which killed 15 radical astatine a Hanukkah ceremony, and called for stricter laws against hatred code and hardline violence.

Speaking connected Monday, a week aft Australia’s deadliest wide shooting successful decades rocked the nation, Albanese promised steps to support Jewish Australians.

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“As premier minister, I consciousness the value of work for an atrocity that happened whilst I’m premier minister, and I’m atrocious for what the Jewish assemblage and our federation arsenic a full has experienced,” helium said.

Albanese pledged that his authorities would enactment to support Jewish Australians and their close “to practise their faith, to amended their children and to prosecute successful Australian society”.

Attack planned ‘meticulously’

Australian authorities proceed to analyse the December 14 attack, whose victims included a 10-year-old miss and a Holocaust survivor, arsenic an enactment of “terrorism”.

Police judge suspects Sajid Akram, 50, and his lad Naveed, 24, were inspired by ISIL (ISIS), saying the group’s flags were recovered successful a car they drove.

While Sajid was changeable dormant by police, Naveed is inactive recovering from his slug injuries successful infirmary and has been charged with 59 offences, including execution and terrorism.

In a tribunal filing, constabulary said the men recorded videos condemning “Zionists” and explained “their information for the ‘Bondi attack'”.

The suspects are believed to person spent months “meticulously” readying the attack, including carrying retired “firearms training” successful the New South Wales countryside, according to the tribunal documents.

Sajid Akram, 1 of the suspects successful the Bondi Beach attack, allegedly grooming with arms astatine a determination suspected to beryllium successful New South Wales authorities successful this representation from a tribunal papers released connected December 22, 2025 [Handout/NSW Police via Reuters]

“We’re not going to fto the ISIS-inspired terrorists win. We won’t fto them disagreement our society, and we’ll get done this together,” Albanese said successful his remarks.

“Urgency and unity is what we need,” helium said and called for bipartisan enactment for “creating an aggravated offence for hatred preaching”.

Albanese, whose support ratings look to person suffered since the attack, has besides projected far-reaching reforms connected weapon legislation, contempt Australia already having immoderate of the strictest limits successful the world.

The authorities of New South Wales, the authorities wherever Bondi Beach lies, sought to present strict caller draught weapon laws connected Monday, arsenic good arsenic a prohibition connected displaying “terrorist” symbols.

The caller rules would headdress the fig of guns an idiosyncratic tin ain to four, oregon 10 for exempted individuals similar farmers.

Authorities would besides beryllium capable to prohibit protests for up to 3 months pursuing an incidental deemed “terrorism”.

The reforms are expected to walk parliament this week.

“We can’t unreal that the satellite is the aforesaid arsenic it was earlier that violent incidental connected Sunday,” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns told reporters. “I’d springiness thing to spell backmost a week, a month, 2 years, to guarantee that didn’t happen, but we request to marque definite that we instrumentality steps truthful that it ne'er happens again.”