CANBERRA—Facing intense backlash from international observers and domestic procrastinators, the Australian government was heavily criticized Friday for its “hasty and irresponsible” decision to pass tighter gun control legislation mere weeks after the Bondi Junction tragedy, rather than observing the traditional 20-year mourning period of legislative gridlock.

Opposition leaders and lobbyists expressed horror that Parliament would ram through a bill targeting firearms and hate speech without first engaging in the standard decade-long ritual of offering thoughts, prayers, and hollow televised debates. “This sets a terrifying precedent where a government identifies a problem and immediately attempts to solve it,” said political analyst blake Harding, noting that the bill was signed before politicians even had a chance to use the massacre for multiple election cycles of fundraising. “By rushing this through in a matter of weeks, Australia has robbed its citizens of the comforting, familiar inertia of bureaucratic paralysis. It’s frankly un-democratic to value public safety over the right to endlessly argue about public safety.”

At press time, the Australian Parliament was further criticized for threatening to implement the new hate speech laws before neo-Nazis had adequate time to rebrand themselves as 'concerned heritage activists.'