Amy Martinez

Now vigils are being held to remember the victims.

Christina Kulkaja is at Bondi Beach in Sydney where crowds have gathered.

Welcome back.

What are you seeing and hearing there?

And a reminder that the investigation continues.

What are you learning there?

Some people here have been interested in the gun control debate in Australia.

How is that evolving in the days after this attack?

We also heard on NPR yesterday a member of an Australian Jewish group who alleged that the government had been very slow to respond to anti-Semitism over the past couple of years.

How's the government answering that?

Reporter Christina Kulkiga, thanks so much.

And that's up first for this Tuesday, December 16th.

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