Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI want it to be in place. So people can go on it and look at the park from the highest point and feel that pain that was just in front of them,\u201d she said. The couple said they would like the park where the Chanukah by the Sea event targeted by the alleged gunmen took place to be renamed \u201cMatilda\u2019s Park\u201d.<\/p>\n
Matilda\u2019s father, Michael Britvan, warned against using his daughter\u2019s death to justify new legislation, and said he did not believe it would prevent another attack, the ABC reported.<\/p>\n
The federal government has reconvened early this week to debate hate speech and gun control laws, while the NSW parliament rushed through an omnibus bill including changes to firearms, hate speech and protest laws just 10 days after the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cCriminals do not care about any laws you make about any speech or any guns. They will find their way,\u201d Britvan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the government tries to rush any laws, especially after some tragedy, they\u2019re never good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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Matilda\u2019s parents, who met in Australia after both moving from Ukraine, told the ABC <\/strong>they had felt unsafe after seeing a rise in antisemitism in the past 18 months, and described the moments leading up to their daughter\u2019s death, saying they initially thought gunshots were firecrackers.<\/p>\nPoltavchenko told the ABC she thought someone was playing a \u201cbad joke\u201d. Britvan found the injured Matilda, who had gone to the festival\u2019s petting zoo with her sister Summer. They said an off-duty doctor and a paramedic, still in their swimming costumes from the ocean, came over to help.<\/p>\n
The parents asked the ABC to identify six-year-old Summer, who they described as like a twin to Matilda despite their age difference.<\/p>\n
They thanked a woman with bright red hair, identified after the attack as 20-year-old Tash Willemsen, who shielded Summer behind a ute when the shooting began. Britvan said he found the uninjured Summer with Willemsen, who had been running the petting zoo with her family.<\/p>\n
The parents told the ABC that Matilda, whose name they chose for its Australian significance, was a \u201cregular, awesome Aussie girl\u201d who was inseparable from her sister.<\/p>\n