By Christine Chen, Reuters

Photo: BAY ISMOYO / AFP

Australia's lower house of parliament has passed new laws for a national gun buyback, tighter background checks for gun licences and a crackdown on hate crimes, in response to the country's worst mass shooting in decades at a Jewish festival last month.

Two bills for stricter gun control and anti-hate measures passed on Tuesday by the House of Representatives in a special parliament session will now go to the upper house Senate for debate.

The gun control laws are expected to pass with the support of the Gree

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