The police found two homemade Islamic State flags in the car of the suspects, a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.

Australia will use a sweeping buyback scheme to "get guns off our streets," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday.

Australia enacted a world-first social media ban Dec. 10, blocking kids under 16 from social media, sparking censorship fears and a major legal challenge.

The massacre has prompted a national reckoning about antisemitism and questions about whether the country’s leaders took seriously enough the threat to Australian Jews.

Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.

Sunday has been declared a day of reflection in Australia to remember the victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach. | ITV National News

A new hiking route on Kangaroo Island takes walkers on a journey through Flinders Chase National Park via platypus-filled pools, windblown beaches and comfortable lighthouse stays.