Bondi Beach shooting live updates: Shooters’ Philippines trip before attack revealed; Port Arthur-era National Firearms Agreement to be renegotiated following deaths of 15 victims

Intelligence and policing services can do more to share information to stop guns ending up in the wrong hands, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has said, as he flagged the “goodwill” among states and territories to reform gun laws.

“There’s certainly issues in terms of connecting intelligence that we might have to gun licenses … it not only going to the individual, potentially going to other family members, and those issues using criminal intelligence to underpin the licensing of firearms is one of the things that national cabinet agreed to work on yesterday,” Burke told ABC Radio National.

“The Howard government did a great thing with the restrictions following Port Arthur. And we all thought that that had had done enough that Australia was now immune. In the most, in the most horrific way we’ve seen, that’s not true. And so to make sure that we use all the tools available to us, with respect to firearms, is absolutely essential,” Burke said.

The minister said that while the gun laws are set by states and territories, there was “extraordinary goodwill around the table” to reform the system, following a meeting of National Cabinet yesterday.

Burke said that work on a national firearms register was being accelerated and the federal government’s portion of that program would be ready as soon as the second half of 2026.

“That is the time that they need to be able to set this up properly. Obviously, as you say, this is a recommendation from a very long time ago. We’re now pressing the accelerator as fast as we can,” he said.

A fundraising page for Ahmed al Ahmed, the “humble” hero who tackled and wrestled a long-arm rifle from one of the Bondi shooters, has amassed more than $1.7 million in donations.

Ahmed, 43, has been praised for his courageous actions after footage of the father-of-two disarming Sajid Akram in the attack beamed around the world. He was shot multiple times and remains in hospital.

As of this morning, more than 29,000 people have donated to an online GoFundMe crowdfunding page set up for Ahmed by CarHub Australia.

Among the donors is US billionaire Bill Ackman, who gave $99,999, and Hollywood actor and comedian Amy Schumer, who donated $2257. Schumer shared an image of NSW Premier Chris Minns visiting Ahmed in hospital on Monday afternoon on her Instagram account.

One $5000 donation is from Charlton Howard, the given name of Australian musician Kid Laroi. Other top donors have given $54,000 and $50,000.

The fundraising page said Ahmed’s “extraordinary actions” had “prevented the loss of countless more lives”.

Ahmed’s migration lawyer, Sam Issa, said on Monday his client had been “riddled with bullets” and was “struggling at the moment” – but he would “do it again”.

“Ahmed’s a humble man, he’s not interested in coverage, he just did what he was compelled to do as a human being on that day,” Issa said.

We have had an update from NSW Health on the wounded. Twenty-five patients are receiving care in hospitals as of 8am. Here’s a breakdown:

• Two patients are in a stable condition at Prince of Wales Hospital.
• One patient is in a critical condition, and two patients are in a stable condition at St George Hospital.
• One patient is in a stable condition at Sydney Eye Hospital.
• Two patients are in a critical condition, two patients are in a critical but stable condition and one patient is stable at St Vincent’s Hospital.
• Three patients are in a critical condition, one patient is in a critical but stable condition and two patients are stable at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
• Three patients are in a stable condition at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.
• One patient is in a critical but stable condition, and two patients are in a stable condition at Royal North Shore Hospital.
• Two patients are in a stable condition at Liverpool Hospital.

Bondi Rescue lifeguard Anthony ‘Harries’ Carroll lauded the heroism of his colleagues. The TV star was in the city doing charity work when the massacre took place, but said he had received an outpouring of support from around the world.

“[There were] heroic acts of courage from everyone, from my mates in blue, through to the local volunteer lifesavers, through to the local community members, to do whatever they can to preserve human life down here,” he said.

Carroll, whose mother was born in Israel, said Sunday’s terror attack had been in the making for decades.

“This was a wound that’s been festering for such a long period of time now, and there hasn’t been enough done,” he said.

Carroll went on to make some strong remarks about protests and politics, saying Australia should look to the US for approaches to tackle antisemitism.

“We need someone powerful in this country to lead us in the right direction [and] we need a stance in this country on the hatred against the Jews,” he said.

Wentworth MP Allegra Spender says members of the Jewish community are frustrated by the federal government’s slow response to a long-awaited plan to combat antisemitism.

Spender said the delayed response to the recommendations in the report by Jillian Segal, the government’s special envoy to combat antisemitism, was “simply not good enough” and explained a “level of anger” being directed towards Labor in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre targeting Sydney’s Jewish community.

“This is the worst that anyone can imagine. And so I think that there is anger there,” Spender told Nine’s Today.

“There’s frustration on sort of the slow response, for instance, with the antisemitism envoy’s recommendations – these are all the things that people are dealing with.

“Any number of people have said that if we leave this [antisemitism] to grow unchecked, who knows where it will end? And the worst nightmare of everyone came true on Sunday evening.

“[A response] should have happened earlier and it is absolutely urgent that it happens now.”

Two of Naveed Akram’s associates were jailed following investigations by national security agencies, prompting a six-month ASIO probe of Akram in 2019 that resulted in no further action against the alleged assailant who opened fire at Bondi on Sunday.

Naveed, 24, is in hospital and is expected to survive his injuries following a shootout with police that resulted in the death of his father and alleged accomplice, Sajid, at the scene.

Current intelligence suggests the two men acted alone, and meticulously planned the attack from a short-term rental in the Sydney suburb of Campsie.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Naveed, his family and acquaintances were interviewed by ASIO officials while under investigation in 2019, but was “not seen at that time to be a person of interest”.

“He was drawn to their attention because of his association with others. Two of the people he was associated with were charged and went to jail,” Albanese told ABC Radio Sydney.

“Now, whether he was radicalised further after that, what the circumstances are, that’s the subject of further investigation.”

Intelligence officials are liaising with international partners to understand if Naveed and Sajid held links with extremist figures overseas. Police are investigating a trip the pair travelled to the Philippines last month.

Federal Multicultural Affairs Minister and counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly has refused to comment on suggestions that the Bondi terror attack represented a security failure by the nation’s intelligence agencies, saying it would be “really unwise to comment or to speculate” on the circumstances leading to the mass shooting.

Aly noted that we “don’t get to hear about all the successes” that security agencies have, rather only when plans or plots aren’t foiled, and expected the police investigation would uncover how the attack happened.

“I will also add there that we need to have confidence in our security agencies, in the police, the swift police response,” Aly told the ABC’s AM. “I think Australians can have confidence.”

Aly rejected suggestions the Albanese government had failed to address antisemitic behaviour in Australia, remarking that while governments had a role to play, the right of people to live without antisemitism was a “whole of community responsibility”.

Dawn mourners have arrived at the vigil outside Bondi Pavilion this morning to lay flowers at an ever-growing memorial.

Attendees stand quietly arm in arm, taking a sombre moment to reflect on the tragedy.

There is a heavy police presence, with officers patrolling the nearby roads and standing in large groups.

Those forced to abandon their cars and belongings during the attack were able to collect them yesterday, though much of Campbell Parade remains cordoned off and businesses are still shuttered.