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Queensland rejects key Bondi report recommendation as Albanese’s gun buyback flounders

the Guardian·the Guardian·about 1 month ago
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Queensland has rejected key recommendations from the Bondi royal commission’s interim report, insisting plans for a national gun buyback will not keep weapons “out of the hands of terrorists and criminals”. The report, handed down by commissioner Virginia Bell on Thursday, raised doubts about whether efforts to establish a national gun register after the 2022 police killings at Wieambilla in Queensland had been “unduly leisurely”. Bell recommended the federal government and the states speed up a jointly funded weapons buyback scheme. Federal Labor is frustrated at opposition to the plans agreed by national cabinet in January. So far, New South Wales is the only clear supporter of the push, slated as the biggest buyback of guns in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. The Northern Territory government has ruled out participation, while South Australia said earlier this month no changes were under consideration.…

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