Australian state passes gun control laws after Bondi attacks
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Australian state of New South Wales has passed gun control laws ten days after the Hanukkah attack in which 15 people were killed. There are also strict limits on how many firearms people can have and the police will have more powers to ban demonstrations. Also: four Palestine Action prisoners in Britain continue a prolonged hunger strike; Libya’s army chief, General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, is killed in a plane crash shortly after take-off from the Turkish capital of Ankara; in Egypt, specialists are restoring a nearly 4,000 year old ceremonial boat from the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu; and a theatre company in Rome trains actors with psychiatric problems and learning disabilities to perform classic Italian plays.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Wednesday the 24th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.8 | New laws on gun ownership in Australia's New South Wales |
| 0:23.1 | after the deadly Bondi Beach attacks. |
| 0:25.8 | We're not going to be done until we've done everything possible |
| 0:28.6 | to keep the people of this state safe |
| 0:30.7 | and we're prepared to take action and steps to keep the community safe. |
| 0:35.0 | Pressure on the UK government grows as hunger strikers from the band group Palestine action |
| 0:40.3 | continue their protest. |
| 0:42.2 | Our loved ones are deteriorating in their health and it is vital that the government responds. |
| 0:47.5 | They have chosen to ignore us and continue to decline any meeting with us. |
| 0:53.8 | In Bethlehem, Palestinians celebrate Christmas for the first times. and continue to decline any meeting with us. |
| 0:58.2 | In Bethlehem, Palestinians celebrate Christmas for the first time since the beginning of the war in Gaza. |
| 1:03.2 | Also in this podcast, the Italian theatre company |
| 1:06.8 | transforming the lives of people with mental disabilities. |
| 1:10.8 | Very often we are forced to be not ourselves. |
| 1:15.6 | Maybe you are a bit weird, you show your fragilities, it's the best thing. |
| 1:25.6 | Ten days after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack in New South Wales, |
| 1:31.4 | the Australian state has passed new laws on gun ownership and protests. |
| 1:36.1 | Among the measures are limiting the number of guns anyone can own to four, though for farmers it's ten. |
| 1:41.7 | Officials are claiming that the new laws are the toughest of their kind in Australia. |
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