Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese has announced plans to get guns off the streets of the country by buying them back from the citizens.
This comes in the wake of the deadly shooting that occurred at Bondi beach during a Jewish festival last Sunday, and that led to the death of 15 people.
Albanese said Australia will toughen laws that allowed one of the shooters, 50-year-old Sajid, to own six high-powered rifles.
He said Australia would pay gun owners to surrender “surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms” and it would be the largest gun buyback since 1996, when a similar shooting led to the death of 35 people.
Meanwhile, the prime minister said Australia would honour those killed in the Bondi attack with a national day of reflection, during which Australians will light candles on Sunday, exactly one week after the incident.