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As the community begins its long process of recovery from the Bondi terror attack, several volunteer groups have arrived from Israel to lend assistance.

One group United Hatzalah, has been helping provide 'psychological first aid' in an effort to help those that experience that attack come to terms with tragedy.

Chile this week elected its most right-wing president in decades with José Antonio Kast winning a decisive run-off vote on a law-and-order platform focused on crime and migration.

Mr Kast's victory mirrors a broader shift across Latin America where voters in countries like Argentina, Ecuador and El Salvador have also backed tougher, conservative leaders - amid fears over security and economic uncertainty.

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to cope after days of heavy rain flooded tent camps and caused war-damaged buildings to collapse, killing at least twelve people, including a two-week-old baby. 

Health officials say the infant died from hypothermia, while others were crushed when weakened buildings gave way under wind and rain.

Guest: Willy Nyeko, emergency co-ordinator at the World Food Program, in Gaza

Producer: Anne Barker

Lisa Millar, presenter on Back Roads and the narrator of Muster Dogs, shares her Summer reading list with Melissa Clarke.

Currently reading:

• Long Island -Colm Tóibín

Summer list:

• Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy

Our most essential workers are often the most vulnerable in a red-hot property market.

The most recent Rental Affordability Snapshot - from Anglicare Australia - found workers like teachers, nurses, cleaners and those in aged care could only afford between 1 and 3 per cent of rental properties.

Now, Anglicare is doing something about it, buying a block of apartments in Sydney and renting them out at affordable rates.

The first residents moved in this week - just in time for Christmas.

• Guest: Rob Stokes, Group Executive of Housing at Anglicare
• Producer: Clare O'Halloran 

Dr Norman Swan - journalist, physician, and host of Radio National's Health Report - shares his Summer reading list with Melissa Clarke.

State and federal governments say they're moving quickly to tighten gun laws in the wake of the Bondi terrorist massacre. But Federal Police have urged governments to go further - including tracking ammunition.

Officers have also spoken out overnight about "chronic and worsening shortages" of staff to monitor potential threats.

Former Prime Minister John Howard- who reformed Australia's gun laws in the 1990s says he doesn't want a focus on guns after the Bondi terror attack to "be used as a pretext to avoid the broader debate" about antisemitism.

Earlier this week, National Cabinet agreed to strengthen gun laws after the deadly Bondi terror attack.

Authorities are now investigating the training and connections the Bondi gunmen may have had, both in Australia and overseas.

Police have confirmed the father-and-son alleged killers travelled to the Philippines weeks before they killed 15 people at a Jewish community event on Sunday.

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