Australia to hold wide-ranging inquiry into antisemitism after Bondi attack

FILE PHOTO: An Australian flag sits amongst floral tributes honouring the victims of a shooting at Jewish holiday celebration on Sunday at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo

SYDNEY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - ‌Australia will hold a Royal Commission inquiry into the Bondi Beach ‌mass shooting in which 15 were killed, the country's most powerful public ‌inquiry, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday.

The mass shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach on December 14 shocked a country with strict gun laws and fuelled ‍calls for tougher controls and stronger action against ‍antisemitism.