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.

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.

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.

Police said around 1,000 people had attended the Jewish celebration, which was held in a small park off the beach.

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.

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.

Global online forum Reddit has filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms.

A global list for the most valuable passport has been released, with Australia’s high taxes making it a less desirable place to be a citizen.