17 Dec 2025

Australia: Bondi latest, expenses scandal, Budget update

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 17 December 2025
Tributes from mourners are piled together at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 16, 2025. Australia's leaders have agreed to toughen gun laws after attackers killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach, the worst mass shooting in decades decried as antisemitic "terrorism" by authorities. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Tributes from mourners are piled together at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach. Photo: Saeed Khan

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn with the latest on the Bondi shootings, including how public debate has now shifted to political recriminations, now the government has announced it would tighten gun laws.

But is it doing enough to fight off claims it's failed to address anti-Semitism?

The shootings took a parliamentary expenses scandal off the front pages and a mid-year Budget update is on the cards today.

Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra