Canberra, Jan 20 (IANS) Australian Parliament on Tuesday passed tougher gun control and hate crime laws in response to last month’s Bondi Beach shooting during a Jewish festival. The gun control laws, which establish a national firearm buyback scheme and tighten import controls, passed both houses with support from the Greens party.The legislation will also strengthen background checks for gun license holders and applicants, improve information sharing between security agencies, restrict gun imp…
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Canberra, Dec 23 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that the Christmas period will be colored by ‘grief and sadness’ following the Bondi Beach terror attack.Albanese said at a press conference in Canberra that the fatal shooting of 15 people that targeted a Jewish festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on December 14 was an antisemitic attack on the Jewish community as well as an attack on “Australian values and on Australian society.”He said that the Christmas period wo…