Christina Kukola

Limiting the number of firearms a person can own is among the options being considered.

Another is to make Australian citizenship a condition for holding a gun licence.

The national government says it will prioritize potential customs restrictions on firearms and other weapons-type imports.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia has requested help from the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, which are part of the so-called Five Eyes group.

Albanese says the government has received information that the two alleged gunmen, a father and son, acted alone.

He says the son, who is the surviving suspect, was previously known to Australia's domestic intelligence agency but was determined not to be a threat in 2019.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

It's been described as the biggest overhaul of Australian gun laws since reforms that followed a mass shooting in Tasmania in the 1990s.

At a meeting led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese one day after the Bondi Beach attack, state and territory leaders agreed to take immediate action.

Limiting the number of firearms a person can own is among the options being considered.

Another is to make Australian citizenship a condition for holding a gun licence.

The national government says it will prioritize potential customs restrictions on firearms and other weapons-type imports.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.

Police in the state of New South Wales say the alleged shooters were a 50-year-old father who was killed by police and his 24-year-old son.

They say the son is in police custody with injuries in hospital and officers are no longer looking for a third suspect.

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon says the investigation is ongoing.

Authorities say more than three dozen people received hospital treatment after the attack.

Australian Federal Police and the country's domestic intelligence agency are resisting the investigation.

For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.