Australia news live: NSW upper house passes gun and protest law; database to log all hate crime charges

December 23, 2025

Marathon session of legislative council sees legislation pass into law; Tony Burke launches tracker to help enable ‘evidence-based’ action

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The New South Wales Minns Labor government has passed controversial changes to gun laws and new powers for police to ban street protests for up to three months, after a marathon debate in the upper house.

The laws, which were drafted in response to the 14 December massacre at Sydney’s Bondi beach in which two gunmen fired on a Hanukah event, killing 15 people, were voted through at 2.51am on Wednesday.

Source: www.theguardian.com

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