The Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Terrorists killed 15 people near Bondi Beach in Australia. In this episode, we spoke to an Australian listener about her country's history of gun control laws, differences been gun culture in the United States and Australia, and what this tragedy means for Australia.
NBC’s report on the victims of the Bondi Beach attack: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/australia/bondi-beach-shooting-victims-australia-hanukkah-attack-rcna249203
The Guardian's detailed report of the timeline of the Bondi Beach attack: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/15/a-visual-guide-to-the-bondi-beach-terror-attack
The Washington Post's article on the Brown University shooting victims Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/15/brown-university-shooting-victims/
Pew Research's data on 2023 gun homicides: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/
Forbes's article detailing the Australian Institute of Criminology's gun homicide statistics: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/12/14/the-gun-murder-rate-in-australia-where-15-were-slain-at-bondi-beach-is-6000-lower-than-in-us/
Gallup data on views in the United States toward gun control: https://news.gallup.com/poll/513623/majority-continues-favor-stricter-gun-laws.aspx
United Nations data on intentional homicide: https://data.unodc.org/datareport/hom-victim
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| 1:34.8 | I'm Anya, and today we're going to cover the recent terrorist attack in Australia. |
| 1:41.1 | Content warning. |
| 1:42.0 | This episode includes discussion of violence, terrorism, murder, and hatred, and anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia. |
| 1:49.6 | On Sunday, December 14, 2025, the unthinkable happened in Australia. A crowd was gathered in Archer Park. This is a small grassy park next to Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Bondi Beach is both the name of |
| 2:03.8 | this famous beach, as well as the surrounding suburb. The suburb has long been a major hub for |
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