Prime Minister Anthony Albanese apologized as Australia observed a day of mourning for victims of the Dec. 14 attack, the country’s worst mass shooting in decades.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry marked the day with a social media post memorializing the victims, including a video with pictures of each of those “whose lives were so cruelly cut short

The incident occurred on Jan. 22, the same day the country held national day of mourning for the victims of the Bondi Beach attack at a Hanukkah event

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(JTA) — A Jewish member of Australian Parliament recited the Mourner’s Kaddish in an address Monday to honor the victims of the Hanukkah massacre on Bondi Beach. The address, delivered by Jewish parliamentarian and former attorney general Mark Dreyfus,

Officials said the father and son accused of killing 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month would have been barred from gun ownership under the new laws.

Australia is set to recall both houses of parliament ahead of schedule to legislate so-called hate speech and gun laws in the wake of last month’s Bondi Beach massacre, AFP reported on Monday. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he would summon the parliaments for a sitting on Jan.