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Australia Debates New Laws to Restrict Hate and Suspend Protests

The authorities are vowing to crack down after a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration. Experts say that what the country needs might not be new laws.

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Police officers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, two days after gunmen killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration.
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Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack

The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, at a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. He announced a nationwide gun buyback plan on the heels of a deadly mass shooting in Sydney last weekend.
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