Australia news live: flags to fly at half-mast to mourn Bondi Junction stabbing victims; PM says gun laws saved lives on Saturday

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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb was on ABC Radio Sydney earlier, where she said that Police had finished taking physical evidence from the scene and had handed the shopping centre back to its owners.

Webb said there were many pieces of evidence taken from the centre, and that investigations are ongoing:

There have been many, many, exhibits that have been taken from that scene for forensic analysis.

Certainly police will go through that and take everything in it for forensic examination.

It will be investigated as part of the coroner’s investigation in terms of any toxicology. Usually, those results are some days and weeks away.

We may never get answers because we can’t ask him and it will be based on what we can determine from interviewing witnesses and family members.

I would just encourage people in the face of such extreme violence and really confronting images to look at some of the heroic acts of bravery from completely strangers that we did see the Bondi -- in Bondi.

Whether it was some young men who confronted him with bollards and chairs, keeping him away from people he could have killed.

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