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The federal government will implement a new gun buyback system in response The Bondi Beach terrorist attack in what Anthony Albanese says will be the biggest hit since then the massacre of Port Arthur about thirty years ago.
Funding for the purchase, which is expected to see hundreds of thousands of weapons destroyed, will be split between the federal government and the states, the Prime Minister said on Friday.
States and territories will collect the donated weapons, while Australian police will oversee their destruction.
Declaring Sunday as a national day of meditation 15 victims of BondiAlbanese confirmed intelligence from the Office of National Intelligence that indicated the shooters used video games regularly from the Islamic State terrorist group.
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Albanese has faced questions about whether a lapse in intelligence contributed to the killing. He said there was no evidence that data sharing would have prevented the killings.
The purchase comes as governments prepare strengthen gun laws through ministers of state, which is expected to see gun licenses issued only to Australian citizens as well as better background checks, time limits on how long licenses can be issued, and limits on the number of firearms people can own.
The long-awaited national gun registry — first proposed after the Port Arthur massacre — is accelerating but won’t be ready until 2027 at the earliest.
“We know that one of these criminals had a gun license and had 6 guns even though he lived in the middle of the Sydney suburbs.
There is more than 4m guns are legally licensed in Australiaan increase of more than 25% since the Howard government introduced major legislative changes 35 people have been killed in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur in 1996.
The purchase and subsequent amnesty cost about 650,000 weapons.
The new restoration will allow gun owners whose collections pass the new rules to donate, and may include voluntary surrenders.
The Prime Minister has called for a bipartisan deal on gun reform, despite Coalition members, minor parties including One Nation and The Labor backbencher is Olympic shooter Dan Repacholi he said the change was not necessary.
Albanese praised Repacholi’s record as a member of the Hunter but warned that stricter laws were too late, including to protect security in Australia’s biggest cities.
“If a bloke in Bonnyrigg needs six high-powered rifles and can fit them under an existing licence, there’s something wrong,” he said.
In a lengthy televised speech Friday, Repacholi said the new laws should not target responsible, law-abiding gun owners.
“From what we are learning, the focus should be on sharing information, identifying risks and enforcing existing powers, not on strict limits that punish innocent people,” he wrote.
“NSW Police already have the power to suspend or revoke licenses where someone is unfit and unfit.”
The New South Wales The Prime Minister, Chris Minns, and his Western Australian colleague, Roger Cook, are leading proposals to change the country’s cabinet, but the Coalition has accused the government of using gun laws to undermine Labor’s record in tackling antisemitism since Hamas attacked 7 October 2023 in Israel.
Leader of the opposition, Susan Leytold Sydney radio station 2GB on Friday that the Coalition would provide a fair and balanced review of any proposals on guns, but called for the focus to remain anti-religious.
“It’s … insulting and it’s not appropriate to prevent the conversation from being like that because what we have to deal with here is the rise of anti-Semitism,” he said.
Nationals leader David Littleproud, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and the Shooters Union have strongly opposed tougher gun laws.
