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Hello and welcome to the last start your week of the year from the bunker.

We're here to set up the news events that will probably land in the next seven days.

I'm Andrew Harrison.

And here with me to talk it all over is author, historian and broadcaster Alex von Tonzelman.

Hi Alex.

Hello, Andrew.

How are you? Not bad. Well, it's the last

week before Christmas and we kind of hoped that the news might be winding down a little, but it is.

And of course, the world is dealing with the fallout of the horrendous anti-Semitic massacre carried out

at Bondi Beach in Australia over the weekend. According to the latest report, 16 people,

including a child, have died after being shot by two apparent terrorists, an event to mark the beginning of

Hanaka, the festival of light, which celebrates faith, resilience and hope. Rabbi Eli Schlanger,

a British-born father of five, was identified as one of the victims. Alex, what are the

developments overnight? One of the gunmen is dead and they appear to be

a father and son. Yes. I mean, lots more information has come out overnight, sort of quite

shocking information, as you say, that it's possibly a father-son duo. They've been named by

the Sydney Morning Herald and various other sources as the 50-year-old father,

Sajid Akram and his son, 24, Navid Akram.

The police haven't yet confirmed that, but obviously expecting that to happen soon,

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