{"id":184163,"date":"2025-12-15T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:29:09","slug":"prime-minister-christopher-luxon-addresses-tragic-sydney-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184163\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon addresses tragic Sydney terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports of horror and heroism have since emerged, including footage of a brave civilian<\/a> who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi gunmen. <\/p>\n

In other media reports, people have described being shot in the back, scrambling to find their children and seeing \u201cbodies all over the floor\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in New Zealand armed police are standing guard at Jewish sites<\/a> around the country. <\/p>\n

Two officers could be seen holding rifles outside the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand in Wellington this morning. Meanwhile in Auckland, about five armed police could be seen outside Kadimah School in Remuera.<\/p>\n

\" Armed police were standing guard outside Wellington’s Holocaust Centre of New Zealand today after a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. Photo \/ Ethan Manera<\/p>\n

Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Tusha Penny said \u201csincere and heartfelt condolences\u201d went out to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week is an important week for the Jewish faith, and we are working directly with the Jewish Council to ensure everybody can celebrate safely,\u201d Penny said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe public can expect to see an increased visible police presence nationally, and for reassurance, additional patrols have been enacted at significant sites of Jewish worship around NZ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier today, Luxon said he was shocked by the distressing scenes in Bondi, \u201ca place that Kiwis visit every day\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia and NZ are closer than friends, we\u2019re family. My thoughts, and the thoughts of all New Zealanders, are with those affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian Prime Minister Albanese described the attack as an act of \u201cevil anti-Semitism\u201d. The mass shooting has been deemed an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians have had their lives cruelly stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of horror and heroism have since emerged, including footage of a brave civilian who tackled and disarmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3255,23539,11730,89,16426,4766,28162,16427,27612,6722,111,43,139,69,116525,49541,415,7819,1734,8445,1961,11787,540,1533],"class_list":["post-184163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-address","tag-addresses","tag-afternoon","tag-attack","tag-christopher","tag-conference","tag-hold","tag-luxon","tag-mass","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-postcabinet","tag-press","tag-prime","tag-shooting","tag-sydney","tag-terrorist","tag-this","tag-tragic","tag-where","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}