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The Take

Will the Bondi Beach shooting change Australia’s gun laws?

The Take

Al Jazeera

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.7748 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach ended with a mass shooting when two gunmen opened fire, killing 15 people. In a country with some of the world’s strictest gun laws, how were a father and son able to carry out an attack that sent shockwaves across Australia?

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Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé and Melanie Marich, with Sarí el-Khalili, Farhan Rafid, Fatima Shafiq, Diana Ferrero, Tamara Khandaker and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz and Sarí el-Khalili.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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0:00.0

Al Jazeera Podcasts.

0:07.0

Today, searching for answers in the wake of Australia's worst mass shooting in three decades.

0:17.0

Their targets are terrified members of Bondi's Jewish community, attending one of the most significant religious celebrations of the year, Hanukkah.

0:26.6

We'll talk to Al Jazeera's reporter on the scene about who was killed, who pulled the trigger, and where Australia goes from here.

0:34.6

I'm Kevin Hurtin, and this is the take.

0:46.8

Before we continue with today's show, remember to leave us a comment, telling us what do you

0:51.5

think about this episode and what stories you want us to do next?

0:54.9

Or if you're on your favorite podcast app, please leave us a review telling us where you're listening

0:59.4

from and you might as well give us a five-star rating while you're there. It really does help

1:03.8

the show. The danger really started to kick in when people started to scream and run and hide for cover.

1:19.3

Everybody was getting notifications, everybody was looking at their phone and we all got that similar vision,

1:25.1

all popping up on our phones of those two gunmen that we saw shooting

1:29.8

people down at Bondi Beach. I'm Danielle Robertson. I am a journalist. I'm based here in Sydney,

1:38.7

and I have been covering the Bondi shooting down at Bondi Beach for the last 48 hours.

1:45.8

Yes, it's been incredible coverage. I was watching the TV when you showed up on the scene

1:51.7

and you were barely ready. Like, they just turned a camera on you. The investigation is being

1:56.4

led by counter-terrorism teams as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization gathers information

2:03.1

on the shooters and how they coordinated this attack.

2:06.6

It must have been quite an experience just arriving at that chaos, huh?

2:11.6

Yeah, we did get down there very quickly.

2:14.6

We were one of the first to arrive on the scene. In fact, we got quite

2:19.5

close to the crime scene. We were right on the perimeter where police had put tape and

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