Christina Kukala
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jun
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Naveed Akram now faces nearly 80 charges over the attack at an event celebrating Hanukkah at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
The new charges include 10 counts of shooting with intent to murder and six of discharging a firearm with intent to resist arrest.
The 24-year-old was previously charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.
He's yet to enter a plea to the charges.
On the day of the attack, Naveed Akram was wounded in a shootout with police, while his father Sajid Akram was killed.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukala in Melbourne.
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The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the review will examine if federal police and intelligence agencies have the right powers, structures, processes and sharing arrangements in place to keep Australians safe.
That's after Australia's domestic intelligence agency revealed it had investigated the surviving suspect, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, in 2019 and deemed him not to be a threat.
The review is due to be completed in April and the findings released to the public.
The Domestic Intelligence Agency says it will cooperate fully with the process.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukala in Melbourne.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says there are currently more than four million firearms in the country.
That's even more than in the late 1990s, when a mass shooting attack in Tasmania killed 35 people and prompted a major reform of gun ownership laws.
Albanese says tougher action is needed today.
Funding for the buyback programme needs to be legislated.
Australia's government says the programme will target surplus newly banned and illegal firearms and surrendered weapons will be destroyed.
It also wants to limit how many guns a person can own and to make Australian citizenship a condition of holding a gun licence.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukala in Melbourne.
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