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A police officer injured in the Bondi terror attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia has woken from a medically induced coma, his family said.
New South Wales (NSW) police constable Scott Dyson, 25, was one of two officers wounded when investigators allege Naveed Akram and his father Sajid opened fire on a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Sydney’s Archer Park on December 14.
The attack killed 15 people and injured dozens more.
Accused gunman Naveed Akram, 24, faces 15 murder charges and one terrorism charge, while his father, 50, was shot dead by police at the scene.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Dyson’s family said their son has been in an induced coma and undergone surgery “almost daily”.


“Our family would like to share that Scott has been getting stronger each day, and today, he was woken up for the first time,” they said.
“There is still a long way to go in his recovery, but this is a positive sign.
“We would like to thank the public for the support, messages and well wishes shown to Scott and our family during this difficult time.”
The family of probationary constable Jack Hibbert said on Tuesday he had been discharged from hospital.
“While he is home, he is still recovering and will need space, support and continued positive thoughts during this time,” they said in a statement.
“As a family, we couldn’t ask for anything more – having our Jack home, especially for Christmas, truly feels like a miracle.”

NSW Health on Tuesday said 12 patients remained in hospital receiving care in the aftermath of the attack.
Four patients are in a stable but critical condition.
Naveed Akram is also accused of 40 counts of attempted murder, discharging a firearm intending to cause grievous bodily harm, a public display of a prohibited terrorist organisation symbol and placing an explosive in or near a building with intent to cause harm.
He was transferred from hospital to prison on Monday and will face a Sydney court again in the new year.
He has yet to enter a plea over the charges.
The massacre at Bondi – Australia’s worst in almost three decades – prompted an international outcry and government plans to tighten the country’s gun laws and hate-speech regulations.

On Tuesday, New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state and where the shooting took place, was set to approve sweeping laws cracking down on guns and giving authorities the power to ban protests.
Facing growing political pressure over the December 14 attack, state and federal governments have proposed changes to gun laws and a broad hate speech ban.
The NSW government has recalled its parliament to introduce what it called the “toughest firearm reforms in the country”.
The new rules will cap the number of guns an individual can own to four, or 10 for exempted individuals like farmers.
The legislation will also ban the display of “terrorist symbols”, including the flag of Islamic State.
And it will give authorities power to prohibit protests for up to three months following a terrorist incident.
The reforms are expected to pass the upper house of the New South Wales parliament on Tuesday evening or early Wednesday.

State Premier Chris Minns said the laws will “keep the people of New South Wales safe”.
“Whether that’s on gun regulation in New South Wales or, secondly, changes to protest, in order to lower the temperature in Sydney,” he told reporters.
A broad coalition of groups has vowed a constitutional legal challenge to the anti-protest laws.
Palestine Action Group Sydney, one of those involved in the challenge, accused the state of having “pushed through legislation without due process, attacking our fundamental right to protest”.
It also accused the state of making “unsubstantiated and plainly dishonest links between antisemitism and the Palestine solidarity movement”.
Australia’s federal government is at the same time pushing for new laws creating an aggravated offence for hate preaching, penalties for those deemed to have sought to radicalise minors and a new register of allegedly extremist groups it will become illegal to join.
It will also pay gun owners to surrender “surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms”.
It would be the largest gun buy-back since 1996, when Australia cracked down on firearms in the wake of a shooting that killed 35 people at Port Arthur.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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Scott Dyson, 25, woke on the day New South Wales, where the December 14 attack took place, was set to approve new laws cracking down on guns


Scott Dyson, 25, woke on the day New South Wales, where the December 14 attack took place, was set to approve new laws cracking down on guns.


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.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Scott Dyson, 25, woke on the day New South Wales, where the December 14 attack took place, was set to approve new laws cracking down on guns

Scott Dyson, 25, woke on the day New South Wales, where the December 14 attack took place, was set to approve new laws cracking down on guns