December 23, 2025 • 5 mins
Businesses are cautiously reopening along Sydney’s Bondi Beach, after its terror attack.
Fifteen people were killed and more than 40 others injured when two gunmen opened fire during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on the beach.
Many local businesses sheltered victims during the attack and have struggled in the days since.
Australian Correspondent Murray Olds told Andrew Dickens that the area's slowly coming to terms with a new reality.
He says cafes are open and people are back surfing.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're into Australia. Murray Old's good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, yeah yeah, magic line phone doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was just talking about comfortable Jack Hibbitt, who's left hospital,
and I was talking about heroes from Bondai and two
heroes I wonder I wanted to ask you Boris and
Sophia German who confronted the gun and got the gun
off and then got shot dead. I wonder whether they're
being celebrated as much as Ahmed al Ahmed and other
heroes because I thought they were amazing and they lost
their lives because of it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's right. They did their best to stop these two
clowns before it began, and they lost their lives. Extraordinary.
I mean each is mining is they're just they're mining
our own business. What's going on here? I've jumped into that,
into that moment and they've died. So look, I think
there's enough enough enough heroism to be shared around. And
(01:05):
then Ahmed al Ahmed was the guy the world is
now seen and he's still in hospital. The young police officers,
you say, is now home for Christmas, which is a
minor miracle in itself. He's lost an the second policeman
who was shot. He's been now he's been brought out
of an induced coma. He's still you know, very unwell.
(01:27):
But it's it's a difficult one right now because the
Bondai we saw on the news yesterday and last night.
Bonda is getting back to whatever normal is going to
look like. The cafes are open again, that people are
they're spending money on coffees, and they're back swimming at
the beach and surfing and and the loads are saying,
you know what, we have to it can't be locked
(01:49):
off because of what's happened. It's part of our DNA
down here and it's a beautiful part of the world
for those who know bonde I Beach. So there's a
there's a lot of that. There's a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
There might be there might be a little bit of
angst about so called disaster tourism, you know, people just
going to see the.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh I've not heard that, but yeah, I'm going possibly,
but I'm not sure they'll be too welcome, to be honest, mate,
Can I.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Ask you a question, Mary, why will Anthony Albanesi not
call for a royal commission into the attack?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, that's a very good question. I mean a guy
called Joe Bilki Pedison who came from danny Verg many
many years ago, went to Queensland and he came over here,
went to Queensland, became premier and he said, never hold
a royal commission if you don't know the answers. And
I think there's a bit of that the oppositions demanding
a royal commission. I mean Albanzy just digs his tozy right,
(02:45):
that's been as political as political kind of standard right
through his career that now goes over many decades. And
if the opposition is demanding and he's going to say no,
absolutely not what he is arguing because there is a
royal commission to be held at state level. The new
South Wales government's going to hold one. And he said
(03:05):
that's fine the way you go. What I want is
a guy called Dennis Richardson, a former ambassador to the
United States, a former head of Australia's domestic security agency.
Asio he's gotten to April to have a good look
at what happened and report back to the government. Albanizi says,
welcomeessions are so slow, expensive and take forever to get
to the end. What I want is a quick and
(03:26):
sharp inquiry. That's what Albanezi is insisting on. At state level.
You've got, as I say, this royal commission. As I
went to bed last night, the upper House of the
New South Wales Parliament was debating legislation for sweeping changes
to gun laws. The lower house passed the previous night
(03:48):
after marathon sitting. Parliament was recalled this week, mate, and
so I'm not sure if the upper House is still going.
There was some talk it was going to be going
well in of this morning. What's proposed a full gun limit,
more frequent license renewals. You know, farmers to have access
to as many weapons as they want because they're going
(04:08):
to shoot different animals out there, fair old pigs and
you know, goats and so on, and sporting shooters as
well will be allowed to have more weapons. So it's
overwhelming public support for that's something like seventy eight seventy
nine percent of people say, gee, what a good idea.
Why didn't we have that already? Okay, so a lot
of moving parts.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Still still have to go, have to go if you
can do this quickly, because we've got the Boxing Day
tests and it's the Ashes, and of course we know
that England's useless and Australia is quite good. And I
was reading this incredible article the other day about Brendan McCollum,
whos omitted that said maybe we were too uptight about
the Ashes and too wanting to succeed, and now that
we've lost, we might actually get back to playing our
(04:49):
natural game. So this could be a good game because
it's a dead rubber. Do you believe Brendan or is
this English team serially useless?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, that's just bs. I mean, well that you think. Look,
I love mcgallum.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
When he was playing for you and I loved him.
I thought he was fantastic, and now I just think
you're a big what a wally? I mean it was
going to be a defining career, defining series, the most
important series ever. Oh, we've got the best team going. No,
you haven't been exposed to a bunch of walies. Absolutely.
Pat Commons won't play.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
In Boxing Day, nor will Nathan Lyon are both out there,
but Nathan Lyons had surgery on his hemi and they're
putting pat comons in cotton wool. But there's England side.
They talked a big game and when it was you know,
the blow torch got put to them with a b attack.
They folded like SAOs and the blender panthetic good stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Murray Olds enjoy the game anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
For more from News Talks b listen live on air
or online, and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks'd be follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're into Australia. Murray Old's good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, yeah yeah, magic line phone doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I was just talking about comfortable Jack Hibbitt, who's left hospital,
and I was talking about heroes from Bondai and two
heroes I wonder I wanted to ask you Boris and
Sophia German who confronted the gun and got the gun
off and then got shot dead. I wonder whether they're
being celebrated as much as Ahmed al Ahmed and other
heroes because I thought they were amazing and they lost
their lives because of it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's right. They did their best to stop these two
clowns before it began, and they lost their lives. Extraordinary.
I mean each is mining is they're just they're mining
our own business. What's going on here? I've jumped into that,
into that moment and they've died. So look, I think
there's enough enough enough heroism to be shared around. And
(01:05):
then Ahmed al Ahmed was the guy the world is
now seen and he's still in hospital. The young police officers,
you say, is now home for Christmas, which is a
minor miracle in itself. He's lost an the second policeman
who was shot. He's been now he's been brought out
of an induced coma. He's still you know, very unwell.
(01:27):
But it's it's a difficult one right now because the
Bondai we saw on the news yesterday and last night.
Bonda is getting back to whatever normal is going to
look like. The cafes are open again, that people are
they're spending money on coffees, and they're back swimming at
the beach and surfing and and the loads are saying,
you know what, we have to it can't be locked
(01:49):
off because of what's happened. It's part of our DNA
down here and it's a beautiful part of the world
for those who know bonde I Beach. So there's a
there's a lot of that. There's a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
There might be there might be a little bit of
angst about so called disaster tourism, you know, people just
going to see the.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh I've not heard that, but yeah, I'm going possibly,
but I'm not sure they'll be too welcome, to be honest, mate,
Can I.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Ask you a question, Mary, why will Anthony Albanesi not
call for a royal commission into the attack?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, that's a very good question. I mean a guy
called Joe Bilki Pedison who came from danny Verg many
many years ago, went to Queensland and he came over here,
went to Queensland, became premier and he said, never hold
a royal commission if you don't know the answers. And
I think there's a bit of that the oppositions demanding
a royal commission. I mean Albanzy just digs his tozy right,
(02:45):
that's been as political as political kind of standard right
through his career that now goes over many decades. And
if the opposition is demanding and he's going to say no,
absolutely not what he is arguing because there is a
royal commission to be held at state level. The new
South Wales government's going to hold one. And he said
(03:05):
that's fine the way you go. What I want is
a guy called Dennis Richardson, a former ambassador to the
United States, a former head of Australia's domestic security agency.
Asio he's gotten to April to have a good look
at what happened and report back to the government. Albanizi says,
welcomeessions are so slow, expensive and take forever to get
to the end. What I want is a quick and
(03:26):
sharp inquiry. That's what Albanezi is insisting on. At state level.
You've got, as I say, this royal commission. As I
went to bed last night, the upper House of the
New South Wales Parliament was debating legislation for sweeping changes
to gun laws. The lower house passed the previous night
(03:48):
after marathon sitting. Parliament was recalled this week, mate, and
so I'm not sure if the upper House is still going.
There was some talk it was going to be going
well in of this morning. What's proposed a full gun limit,
more frequent license renewals. You know, farmers to have access
to as many weapons as they want because they're going
(04:08):
to shoot different animals out there, fair old pigs and
you know, goats and so on, and sporting shooters as
well will be allowed to have more weapons. So it's
overwhelming public support for that's something like seventy eight seventy
nine percent of people say, gee, what a good idea.
Why didn't we have that already? Okay, so a lot
of moving parts.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Still still have to go, have to go if you
can do this quickly, because we've got the Boxing Day
tests and it's the Ashes, and of course we know
that England's useless and Australia is quite good. And I
was reading this incredible article the other day about Brendan McCollum,
whos omitted that said maybe we were too uptight about
the Ashes and too wanting to succeed, and now that
we've lost, we might actually get back to playing our
(04:49):
natural game. So this could be a good game because
it's a dead rubber. Do you believe Brendan or is
this English team serially useless?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, that's just bs. I mean, well that you think. Look,
I love mcgallum.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
When he was playing for you and I loved him.
I thought he was fantastic, and now I just think
you're a big what a wally? I mean it was
going to be a defining career, defining series, the most
important series ever. Oh, we've got the best team going. No,
you haven't been exposed to a bunch of walies. Absolutely.
Pat Commons won't play.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
In Boxing Day, nor will Nathan Lyon are both out there,
but Nathan Lyons had surgery on his hemi and they're
putting pat comons in cotton wool. But there's England side.
They talked a big game and when it was you know,
the blow torch got put to them with a b attack.
They folded like SAOs and the blender panthetic good stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Murray Olds enjoy the game anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
For more from News Talks b listen live on air
or online, and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcast on iHeartRadio.
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