Bondi Beach attack: A look at Australia’s ‘rare’ mass shooting incidents

Wieambilla, Queensland (2022) 

Six people died, including two police officers, after officers were ambushed at a rural property. The three shooters, described as Christian extremists and conspiracy theorists hostile to police, were later shot dead following a six-hour siege. A neighbour was also killed.

Darwin, Northern Territory (2019) 

A lone gunman killed four people and injured another in a shooting spree across multiple locations. The attacker was arrested and later convicted.

Significant mass shootings this century included two murder-suicides with death tolls of five people in 2014, and seven in 2018, in which gunmen killed their own families and themselves.