Prince Harry and Meghan Markle met survivors of the Bondi Beach attack on Friday, the final day of their four-day visit to Australia, in a highly emotional engagement focused on victims, first responders and community recovery.

Australia's Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion, established following the Bondi Beach attack in December, commenced its official hearings on Tuesday.

Naveed Akram, the man accused of carrying out the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack, appeared in a Sydney court on Monday after being formally charged with 59 offenses linked to the fatal mass shooting.

Naveed Akram, the alleged Bondi Beach gunman, has been transferred to Goulburn Supermax Prison in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands.

Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach acted alone and were not part of a wider militant cell.

Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is set to pass stricter gun laws, ban terrorist symbols, and curb protests following the deadly Bondi Hanukkah mass shooting on December 14. Fifteen people were killed, and dozens injured in the antisemitic attack.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised to the Jewish community following the deadly Bondi Beach attack and called for tougher laws against hate speech and extremist violence.

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), where the deadly Bondi shooting occurred, plans to ban the phrase “globalise the intifada” as part of broader measures against “hateful” slogans.

The Australian federal government will roll out a new gun buyback scheme following the Bondi Beach terror attack, a move Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said would result in the largest collection of firearms since the Port Arthur massacre almost 30 years ago.

The man accused of the Bondi Beach attack, who survived a police shootout, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder, after waking from a coma on Tuesday.