Australia vowed to change after the Bondi terror attack. Has it? | CNA Correspondent

Almost six months ago, two gunmen opened fire on hundreds of Jewish families celebrating Hanukkah near Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Fifteen people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the December 14, 2025 attack - Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years. In the aftermath, Parliament passed stricter hate crime and gun ownership laws, announced a national buyback scheme and launched a Royal Commission into antisemitism.

Since then, the gun buyback initiative has faltered and a provision to criminalise inciting racial hatred has been quietly dropped. On this episode of the CNA Correspondent podcast, Arnold Gay speaks to Natashya Gutierrez and Jack Board to ask: Do Australian Jews feel any safer today? And have the nation's leaders truly matched their words with action?

Highlights:
01:26 Do Australian Jews feel safer today?
04:08 How Bondi changed Australia
07:03 Unity and division after tragedy
10:26 New laws and missed opportunities
13:02 Why the gun buyback scheme stalled
15:55 Have the new measures worked?
17:40 Protest rights and free speech
19:59 Looking into antisemitism and social cohesion
21:51 Bondi's legacy

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