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Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to the victims of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings one year on from the tragedy.

Forty-year-old Joel Cauchi killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahrir, 30, and injured a further 10 people at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024 before he was shot and killed by a police inspector, Amy Scott.

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