By Steven Trask for AFP

Photo: AFP / SAEED KHAN

Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight Sunday to honour the Bondi Beach shooting victims, marking one week since gunmen fired into crowds at a Jewish festival.

A father and son are accused of targeting the beachside Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people including children and Holocaust survivors on one of the nation's darkest days.

From raucous city pubs to sleepy country towns, Australia observed a minute's silence at 6.47pm local time -- exactly a week since the first reports of gunfire.

In a nation-wide gesture of "light over darkness", countless homes lined their windowsills with can

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