{"id":315436,"date":"2025-12-14T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315436\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:45:08","slug":"bondi-beach-nine-killed-in-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315436\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach: Nine killed in shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadliest shooting since world-leading gun reformspublished at 10:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57f58a93-d897-424c-8c82-0a66b03a3f89.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Tiffanie Turnbull<br \/>BBC News, Sydney<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With police confirming nine civilians are dead, this attack has become the deadliest shooting in this country since the Port Arthur attack rocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1996, 35 people were killed, and scores were hurt, when a lone gunmen opened fire at a historic site in Tasmania. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That attack was a turning point, famously prompting the government to introduce some of the world&#8217;s strictest gun control measures. There was a gun buyback scheme, and increased checks on owners, and attacks radically dropped. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ve only had a handful of mass shootings since, most of them horrific acts of domestic violence &#8211; not public place attacks like today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is an unfamiliar, and devastating, shock for Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadliest shooting since world-leading gun reformspublished at 10:12 GMT 10:12 GMT Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, Sydney With police confirming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-315436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}