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The school attended by 10-year-old Matilda has shared a heartbreaking tribute.

School shares heartbreaking tribute for Bondi victim Matilda

The school attended by 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest victim of the horrific Bondi Beach terror attack, has shared a heartbreaking tribute to the girl they remember as a ‘little ray of sunshine’.

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Tom Silvagni did not react when hearing his jail sentence by video link from prison. (Anita Lester/AAP PHOTOS)

'Callous' rapist Tom Silvagni learns fate as sentence handed down

Tom Silvagni, the youngest son of AFL great Stephen and television identity Jo, has been jailed after being convicted of rape.

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Anthony Albanese is facing the heat over what many say is the lack of action on anti-Semitism in the lead-up to the Bondi shooting.

Don't ditch anti-Semitism fight for gun reform, PM told

As Governments contemplate landmark reforms to the nation's gun laws in the wake of the Bondi stabbing, Jewish groups are urging for cultural change.

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Sajid Akram, 50, one of the two shooters who targeted a Jewish gathering of roughly 1,000 people at Bondi Beach on 14 December, 2025. Unknown

Bondi gunman's Indian family unaware of ‘radical mindset’

Indian relatives of one of the dead gunmen in the Bondi massacre had little contact, police say, and ‘no knowledge of his radical ​mindset or activities’.

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 Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Chalmers to post $36.8b deficit amid spending cuts

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will on Wednesday unveil a slightly smaller than anticipated Budget deficit in a mid-year update expected to feature major spending cuts and rising revenue.

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NEWS WORTHY: Foreign terror links to shooters probed as gun laws tightened

WATCH: Foreign terror links to Bondi shooters revealed

NEWS WORTHY: In today’s episode, Ben O’Shea looks at the foreign terror links to Bondi shooters that are being probed by international agencies.

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In secular Australia, beaches represent something close to a sacred space. This made Sunday’s shooting felt like a conscious attack.

How Bondi shooters attacked Australian secularism

DAVID FICKLING: In Australia, beaches are a sacred space where people of all walks of life meet. By committing an act of terror at Bondi, the shooters targeted our social cohesion.

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Bondi has always stood for openness and belonging. What it can stand for now is something even more powerful.

How devastation at Bondi could forge something powerful

SARAH STINSON: Bondi has always stood for openness and belonging. What it can stand for now is something even more important.

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The footpath where eight people were struck by a car in Maroochydore

‘Tragedy’: Woman dies after alleged deliberate hit-and-run

The death comes just a week before Christmas with police labelling it ‘inconceivable’.

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Sajid Akram, 50, one of the two shooters who targeted a Jewish gathering of roughly 1,000 people at Bondi Beach on 14 December, 2025.

Bondi killers in terrorist hot spot two weeks before killing

Sajid and Naveed Akram, who police say were inspired by Islamic State, left the Philippines island of Mindanao on November 28. The island is the heart of an Islamic insurgency affiliated with ISIS.

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The AFP union warned authorities of officer shortages.

Fed cops warned of ‘chronic shortage’ weeks before Bondi

The union representing federal police warned the Albanese Government last month the force was suffering ‘chronic and worsening shortages’ of counterterrorism officers.

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Naveed Akram and his father arrived in the Philippines weeks before their bloody massacre at Bondi Beach.

How Philippines trip helped prepare Bondi duo for massacre

Experts say the Bondi gunmen’s trip to the Philippines would have involved ‘psychological preparation’ for their massacre as authorities probe the purpose of the pair’s travel to the terrorism hotbed.

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Father and son duo Sajid and Naveed Akram are the alleged gunmen responsible for the deaths of 15 people at Bondi Beach.

Bondi gunman spent month in Philippines as ‘Indian national’

The father and son allegedly behind one of Australia’s deadliest mass shootings spent nearly the entire month of November in the Philippines, with the father entering as an ‘Indian national’.

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Victims pleaded for police help while they watched people being slaughtered around them.

Ten minutes of terror: The Bondi massacre as it happened

A reconstruction of the ISIS-inspired attack reveals the massacre was almost stopped before it began and victims pleaded for police help while they watched people being slaughtered around them.

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