SYDNEY, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The parliament of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) had passed tough new gun and protest laws in response to the fatal mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday.
ABC said that the bill, which packaged gun reforms with a ban on protests for up to three months, passed 18 votes to eight just before 3 a.m. local time on Wednesday and included a key amendment on tightening firearms laws for people with suspected terrorist links.
The legislation went back to the lower house to be rubberstamped, it added.
The mass shooting, which targeted an event celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, killed 15 victims on Dec. 14. Enditem
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