Overview
- National Cabinet agreed to strengthen firearms laws nationwide, with proposals including caps on the number of guns per person, tougher background checks, periodic licence reviews and restricting licences to citizens.
- Leaders also agreed to accelerate work on a national firearms register and to use additional criminal intelligence in licensing decisions to better detect risk.
- New South Wales police identified the alleged gunmen as father and son Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24; police shot the elder dead at the scene and the younger remains in hospital under guard.
- Authorities said the father held a firearms licence and was licensed for six guns, several of which were recovered at the scene, as state and federal officers continue searches of linked properties.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the shooting antisemitic terrorism that killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens, and confirmed ASIO examined the younger suspect in 2019 without finding an ongoing violent threat.