Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will announce the funding commitment on Saturday that will allow police to track gun possession.
Once again,In the face of catastrophe and in the worst circumstances,the best Australian characteristics shone through.
I can see no excuse for the kind of abhorrent behaviour we’ve heard about at Channel Seven in recent days.
The pump-action Wedgetail MPR308 rifle is banned in NSW,Tasmania and the ACT but can be bought in every other state and territory.
Former police sniper Craig Harwood has spoken out about the spiking of a controversial new book by an author who falsely claimed to have been at Port Arthur.
The former member of the Victoria Police Special Operations Group said he was involved in the resolution of the Port Arthur massacre,a claim denied by police.
Can the worship of weapons be stopped in a country at war with itself?
If Australia had the same population as the US,at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.
Twenty-five years ago,Port Arthur’s survivors took a difficult step away from grief when they mourned the deaths of 35 people a year ago.
Nitram doesn’t offer any easy answers beyond the obvious:keep the guns under control.
Whether or not one has misgivings about the decision to depict the 1996 Port Arthur massacre,this film about the unnamed killer is brilliantly made and utterly compelling.