{"id":324309,"date":"2025-12-19T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324309\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:42:08","slug":"surfers-and-swimmers-pay-tribute-to-victims-of-bondi-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324309\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfers and swimmers pay tribute to victims of Bondi shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surfers and swimmers paid tribute to Sunday&#8217;s shooting victims at Bondi beach on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They paddled out past the wave breaks to create a ring shape and held a memorial on shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bondi beach has become a vigil site for the 15 killed and dozens wounded in last weekend&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flower bouquets are bundled in a heap next to the park where the shooting occurred, where mourners have been listening to community speakers in the days since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian government has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn09p4kjj4wo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a gun buyback scheme<\/a> which would see the purchase of surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surfers and swimmers paid tribute to Sunday&#8217;s shooting victims at Bondi beach on Friday morning. They paddled out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324309","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=324309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}