Australia Confronts Rising Antisemitic Violence After Shooting

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Dec. 15. Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese is vowing tougher gun laws after a father and son targeted a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing 15 people. Plus, Chileans elected their most right-wing president since the end of Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship in 1990, giving President Trump another South American ally. And Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX launches a Wall Street bake-off to hire banks for a possible IPO next year. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	Gunmen in Australia kill 15 people at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, the country's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years.
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1:17.1	Authorities in Australia are treating yesterday's killing of 15 people at a Hanukkah event
1:22.5	on Sydney's Bondi Beach as a terrorist attack.
1:26.0	Authorities said the shooting, which was carried out by a father and
1:29.0	his son, was designed to target Sydney's Jewish community. And speaking this morning,
1:34.1	Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the suspects were driven by an extreme perversion of Islam,
1:39.6	but had acted alone, stressing that investigations are continuing. Despite its reputation as a model for multiculturalism,
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