CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 2 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Welcome back. Of course, we came back early to deal with the immediate consequences of December 14, the antisemitic terrorist attack. And we got the legislation through, not in the form that we originally proposed, because some of it was unable to receive support of people who had called for the precise measures that we introduced into the Parliament. But the legislation on guns and hate speech that we were able to carry through the Parliament was a significant advance. And the commitment of this group to not just talk about bringing Parliament back and getting reform done but actually support it and vote for it, wa...