Paul Moss

This is Australia's worst mass shooting for almost 30 years.

In 1996, 35 people died at a place called Port Arthur on the island state of Tasmania.

That prompted sweeping gun control measures.

And once again, with an atrocity like this, in a place like this, at a political situation like this, you'd have to say that further scrutiny of Australia's gun control measures will be an inevitable consequence of this.

Phil Mercer in Sydney.

And since I spoke to Phil, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has said he will pursue tougher gun laws.

The choice in Chile could not have been more stark.

When voters went to the polls on Sunday, they had two candidates for president.

On the one hand, a communist.

On the other, a man usually described as far-right.

José Antonio Kast is the son of a German Nazi party member, and he's expressed admiration for Augusto Pinochet, the country's one-time dictator.

He's promised to crack down on crime and deport illegal immigrants.

And that apparently has paid dividends at the ballot box, giving him victory by what seems to be an unexpectedly high margin.

The Communist Party candidate, Hanet Hara, was quick to concede.

In a victory speech in Santiago, Mr. Kast set out his priorities for office.

Our South America correspondent, Ione Wells, has been following the election, and she gave me this update from the Chilean capital, Santiago.

It's very clear at this point that José Antonio Cast is going to be Chile's next president.

He won decisively with more than 58% of the vote in his third attempt at running for president.

Earlier, I was in a crowd of his supporters where they had gathered to watch the results

come in in Santiago, many of them draped in Chile flags, some wearing red caps saying, make Chile great again.