Overview
- Operation Shelter officers responded about 10pm to reports of a man wearing a vest covered in duct-taped objects on Oxford Street at Bondi Junction and located him on Bondi Road.
- Police charged the Victorian man with providing false information, possessing a prohibited drug and behaving in an offensive manner.
- Bomb disposal officers examined two duct-taped vests and determined they were safe after a search also found a face mask and a tin believed to contain drugs.
- The arrest occurred hours after a large memorial marking shloshim for victims of the December 14 Bondi Beach terror attack, where police maintained a visible presence.
- Authorities continue broader responses that include an active Operation Shelter and a federal royal commission led by former justice Virginia Bell with a report due before December 14, 2026.