Bondi Beach terrorist attack live updates: Family of 10-year-old victim Matilda speak out
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Bondi terror suspect reportedly wakes from coma
Bondi terror suspect, Naveed Akram, has reportedly woken from his coma according to mutliple media outlets.
NSW Health and NSW Police have yet to confirm the reports.
He is yet to be charged over the shooting.
NSW Police previously said they expected to charge him once he woke from his coma.
Bondi gunman spent month in Philippines as ‘Indian national’
The father and son allegedly behind the Bondi terror attack spent nearly the entire month of November in the Philippines, authorities in Manila confirmed Tuesday, with the father entering as an “Indian national”.
Sajid Akram and his son Naveed entered the country on November 1 with the southern province of Davao listed as their final destination.
“Sajid Akram, 50, Indian national, and Naveed Akram, 24, Australian national, arrived in the Philippines together last November 1, 2025 from Sydney, Australia,” immigration spokeswoman Dana Sandoval told AFP.
Ten minutes of terror: Witnesses almost stopped attack, victims pleaded for help
A reconstruction of the ISIS-inspired attack reveals the massacre was almost stopped before it began and victims pleaded for police help while they watched people being slaughtered around them.
A man and woman confronted Sajid Akram on Campbell Parade, next to his car, which had an Islamic State flag draped over the windscreen.
The older man wrestled a long arm from Akram, dash-cam footage from passing cars showed. Wielding the gun like a club, he fought hand-to-hand with the heavily built 50-year-old.
The man and woman were later found dead next to the car.
What happened next was 10 minutes of terror.
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Edith Brutman identified as a Bondi shooting victim
Devoted Jewish community member Edith Brutman has been named as one of the 15 innocent people killed at the Bondi Beach massacre.
Ms Brutman attended the Chanukah By the Sea event on Sunday where she was killed in the violent anti-Semitic attack.
She was the vice president of an anti-prejudice and anti-discrimination committee at the NSW branch of the international Jewish community service organisation, B’nai B’rith.
Ernie Friedlander, President of the Alfred Dreyfus Unit (ADU) at B’nai B’rith told The Age Ms Brutman was a “good, caring human being”.
Family of youngest Bondi victim remember her as ‘full of joy’
The family of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in Sunday’s horrific anti-Semitic terror attack, have spoken out at Bondi Beach.
“Just remember Matilda like a happy child,” her aunt Lina Chernykh said.
“She was just happy ... full of joy, happiness.”
Ms Chernykh said the Government needs to “think about more security for everyone”.
“Doesn’t matter what nationality, what country you’re from. We’re immigrants, you know, I can’t (say) like stop immigration,” she said.
“But just be more careful who you take in ... sharing values of peace and happiness.”
Minns’ ‘graphic’ response to suggestions Bondi cops froze
A furious Chris Minns has rushed to back the actions of police officers during Sunday’s horrific Bondi Beach terror attack.
At a press conference on Tuesday, the NSW Premier interrupted NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon as he responded to a grilling on the adequacy of the police response.
“There are two officers in critical care in New South Wales hospitals at the moment. They weren’t shot in the back as they were running away. They were shot in the front,” Mr Minns said.
“I’m sorry to be graphic about it but if there is any suggestion that New South Wales police didn’t live up to their responsibilities to the people of this state it should be rejected because it is not consistent with the facts.”
New footage emerges of couple who appear to try stop Bondi gunman
New footage has emerged of a couple who appeared to try to stop one of the Bondi Beach gunmen before he got to the footbridge to launch the attack on a Jewish event at Archer Park.
Dashcam footage appears to show a man wrestle and disarm terrorist Sajid Akram, 50, by a silver sedan as a woman rushes towards them. His son Naveed, 24, can’t be seen in the vision.
According to reports by The Daily Telegraph and Sky News, outlets which first published the video, the car had an ISIS flag draped over the front wind screen.
It’s understood that the couple didn’t survive the encounter.
NSW Police couldn’t provide further details to The Nightly, saying their investigation was still underway and “not all victims have been formally identified”.
‘People are dead’: Ley's blunt message telling PM to act now
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has delivered a brutally blunt message to the PM: act now on antisemitism because Australians are dead.
“It is very emotional coming to Bondi. It has been a very hard few days coming here, seeing friends. I grew up around here,” Ms Ley said on Tuesday about the usually peaceful place.
“We have been calling on the government to respond to and implement the Segal report since it came down. With this report, we were told we had to wait until the Islamophobia report came down. Then we were told we had to wait for the Human Rights Commission report.
“There is white hot Anger in the Jewish community that this government hasn’t done enough. 15 people are dead, now is the time for action.
“What has been allowed to occur in this country over the last two and a half years is a delegitimisation of the place of Jewish Australians.
“I want to see them take action because people are dead, people are in hospital in a critical condition. Time for words is finished. The time for action is now.”
Jillian Segal says ‘progression’ of violence against Jewish Australians was evident
Australia’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal says the “progression” of violence against Jewish Australians has been evident since October 7, 2023.
She highlighted previous incidents and rolling protests in the lead up to Sunday’s massacre of 15 people at a family Jewish event at Australia’s most iconic beach.
“We’ve learned that from history that words, hateful words, lead to hateful action,” she told Sky News on Tuesday.
“There is a progression. We had the rally on the forecourt of the Opera House, and then we’ve had lots of demonstrations and lots of hate. The march across… the Harbor Bridge. You can see the progression.
“I think antisemitism is a known hatred that we have not treated seriously enough as a country.
“Like other Western countries, we sort of believed that it was fine our multiculturalism would protect us, and it hasn’t.
“I am very keen to take this terrible tragedy and use it as an opportunity to say to everybody in the whole community of Australia, one consistent with the Prime Minister’s message, let’s come together.
“We have to rid our country of this scourge of this hatred. It’s an ancient hatred, and it’s been allowed to become normalised in lots of parts of our society, and we won’t have a successful, cohesive society unless we deal with it.”
NSW Health provide update on condition of Bondi victims
Patients are spread across multiple Sydney hospitals as recovery efforts continue following the massacre at Bondi Beach.
NSW Health have provided an update of the conditions of those in hospital with five patients in a critical condition.
As of 12pm Tuesday there are twenty-four patients receiving care in eight Sydney hospitals for their injuries:
- St Vincent’s Hospital: Two people in a critical condition, two critical but stable, and one stable.
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital: Three critical, one critical but stable, and two stable.
- Prince of Wales Hospital: Two stable patients.
- St George Hospital: One critical and two stable patients.
- Sydney Eye Hospital: One stable patient
- Sydney Children’s Hospital: Three stable patients.
- Royal North Shore hospital: One critical but stable and two stable.
- Liverpool Hopsital: Two people in a stable condition.
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