By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Australia has enacted new laws for a national gun buyback, tighter background checks for gun licences and a crackdown on hate crimes in response to the ...

Australia's Parliament has passed new gun restrictions and begun debating proposed anti-hate speech laws after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack that ...

At least 15 people were killed at a beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when a father and son opened fire on a crowd celebrating the beginning of Hanukkah. At least 42 people were hospitalized.

Three decades ago, almost 650,000 firearms − about one-third of all privately owned guns in Australia – were surrendered, loaded into trucks and destroyed. In exchange for these firearms, part of a ...

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday hailed parliament's passing of tougher anti-hate speech and gun laws in response to the deadly Bondi beach shooting last month. At such a ...

SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The number of firearms in Australia reached an all-time high of more than 4 million in 2025, the centre-left government reported on Sunday, a day after saying it would ...