Overview
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled a nationwide buyback and called for a Sunday remembrance observance, with a national day of mourning to be held next year.
- Authorities said the program will compensate owners for “superfluous, newly prohibited and illegal” weapons after police confirmed the elder attacker legally owned six guns.
- Canberra also moved to harden counter‑extremism laws, including tougher penalties for hate speech, tighter oversight of radical preachers and the option to cancel visas for inciters.
- Surviving suspect Naveed Akram, 24, is in custody on terrorism and 15 murder charges; police say the shooting appears ISIS‑inspired and reported finding ISIS flags and improvised explosive devices in the attackers’ vehicle.
- Investigators are examining the pair’s November stay in Davao in the southern Philippines, and police detained seven men in a separate Sydney operation on Thursday with no link established to the Bondi case.