SYDNEY: Australia has enacted new laws for a national gun buyback, tighter background checks for gun licenses and a crackdown on hate crimes in response to the country’s worst mass shooting in decades at a Jewish festival last month. Two bills for stricter gun control and anti-hate measures passed the House of Representatives and Senate late on Tuesday during a special sitting of parliament. The gun control laws passed with the support of the Greens party despite opposition from the opposition conservative Liberal-National coalition.

Bills yet to be voted by Senate, with opposition to gun law likely from conservative Liberal-National Coalition.

The laws, in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, establish a national buyback, stop the importation of some firearms and tighten background checks