Phil Mercer

Phil, I also want to talk about this new award that will be created to honor the heroes from the Bondi attack.

What more do we know about that?

In a dark room lit only by candles in London's Italian embassy, a medieval poet stumbles into a terrifying hellscape.

His name is Dante and this is a performance of his Divine Comedy, one of Italy's most famous works of literature.

The piece, originally written in the 1300s, is an imagined vision of the afterlife and traces a man's journey through hell to purgatory and then to paradise.

Dario D'Ambrosio is the mastermind behind the project, which has been going since 1992.

In recent years, the theatre company has even created a university course for people with mental illnesses, a point of pride for Dario D'Ambrosio, who hopes this project could inspire theatre groups in other countries.

He tells me that the impact of helping just one person who's struggling has huge ripple effects in their community.

Thousands of people attended a memorial at Bondi Beach to remember the country's worst mass shooting in three decades.

A day of reflection came at the end of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights.

The Prime Minister Antony Albanese was booed by sections of the crowd.

His government has been criticized for its response to rising anti-Semitism.

Mr Albanese has promised a crackdown on extremism and a review into the powers and processes of the intelligence agencies and the police.

One person shouted to Anthony Albanese that he had blood on his hands, and that is a sentiment that we have heard repeatedly down here.

There has been stinging criticism of the prime minister and his centre-left government over what they believe is their failure to stem a rising tide of anti-Semitism.

The prime minister rejects that, but he did say this week that he wasn't perfect.

And we've seen some significant political announcements as he seeks to gain a more steady footing in this debate.

This will be the biggest gun buyback in Australia since the mid-1990s.

Back then it was a response to a mass killing on the island of Tasmania in which 35 people were killed by a lone gunman.

And once again we've seen the federal government act swiftly after a major tragedy.