We should be making sure that the 1996 firearm laws are fully developed before adding more laws on top otherwise its just kicking the can down the road like the National firearms registry which is now the 3rd time its been written into law and still not completed.
If the states don’t want to pay for things then the federal government should start to levy the taxes we should be having more of.
A federal land tax, and federal taxes on super profits from our natural resources. The proceeds should be used to cut income taxes and relax means tests / poverty traps.
DunceCodex on
It’s not supposed to? LNP politicians have spent weeks talking out both sides of their mouth
Calm_Anteater_7083 on
That’s right, labor is completely and utterly hopeless.
Dranzer_22 on
>THE GUARDIAN: The parents of police murdered in a 2022 ambush in western Queensland have thrown their support behind the federal government’s proposed gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack.
>…
>Speaking on behalf of the families of both officers, Rachel’s mother, Judy McCrow, called for gun reform.
>“We fully support the federal government in its plan to tighten guns laws and promote the national gun buyback scheme,” she said.
>“A recent research report by the Australia Institute found that theft of legal guns is now the main source of illegal guns in Australia.”
Australia’s “less guns” mentality has only become more entrenched over the decades, and there’s universal support for gun law reform. Especially after Christchurch 2019, Wieambilla 2022, Porepunkah 2025, and now Bondi 2025.
Crisafulli is opening his mouth, but the gun lobby groups are talking.
Disastrous-Beat-9830 on
>National gun buyback doesn’t address antisemitism and hatred, Queensland premier says
Better title: Queensland premier does not understand purpose of national gun buyback.
Glass_Ad_7129 on
I assumed the point would be to drastically reduce the number of guns in circulation, and thus less likely to fall off the grid and into the hands of bad actors that could act upon their hatred, in the long term. Opposed to a -1 to the antisemitism meter, per gun returned, sort of deal.
This is often a common form of critique I see in politics… Party puts forward a series of policies to address an issue, each policy focuses on a particular area of said issue more than the others etc. Opposition to that party attacks “one” policy as not being “enough” to address the issue, ignoring the fact, or distracting from, that it is apart of a yesteryear of solutions being applied. Not just a one off thing, or something that could be added to in future at worst, if said policy was the only one being introduced.
FothersIsWellCool on
uh… yeah? why would it? if it was about antisemitism and hatred that would be some soft of secondary antisemitism and hatred based legislation, you know, like they did. Is he also confused about Traffic law legislation doesn’t address antisemitism and hatred?
BeLakorHawk on
It wasn’t meant to. It’s a diversionary thought bubble Albo had that he couldn’t walk back.
Anachronism59 on
It’s a bit like saying that seat belt laws do not address poor driving or reduce the number of accidents , so clearly they are useless.
The premier needs to learn about the Swiss Cheese model of risk.
It’s is a pity that the debate on Bondi and what should, or should not, be done fails to talk about risk models, because this is arguably all about risk management, not politics and emiruins.
Perfect-Werewolf-102 on
And more importantly, a national gun buyback costs QLD money
But I’m not sure how he believes this won’t do anything to reduce guns in the hands of criminals and terrorists
B0llywoodBulkBogan on
Yeah but it will hopefully help address stuff like the sovereign citizens that shot at a bunch of cops.
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The firearm laws simply punish licensed firearm owners for the consistent failures of NSW police and the desire to not fully staff the Firearms registry allowing individuals like the bondi shooters to fall through the licensing cracks. [They’ve been chronically understaffed since atleast 2014 which is simply negligence on both the NSW police and government](https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/gun-registry-severely-understaffed-a-year-after-edwards-family-murders/news-story/c2f12531e32b396121020ce4b7bbcba4).
We should be making sure that the 1996 firearm laws are fully developed before adding more laws on top otherwise its just kicking the can down the road like the National firearms registry which is now the 3rd time its been written into law and still not completed.
Once the true cost of the buyback is known, I don’t think many states even the federal government would want to do it as it’ll be billions of dollars for having zero impact. [SFIA has estimated its likely to be around 15 billion if the same knee jerk reactions as NSW is applied across the entire country. ](https://sifa.net.au/media-release-albanese-government-destroys-national-firearms-agreement-after-three-decades-of-unity/)
If the states don’t want to pay for things then the federal government should start to levy the taxes we should be having more of.
A federal land tax, and federal taxes on super profits from our natural resources. The proceeds should be used to cut income taxes and relax means tests / poverty traps.
It’s not supposed to? LNP politicians have spent weeks talking out both sides of their mouth
That’s right, labor is completely and utterly hopeless.
>THE GUARDIAN: The parents of police murdered in a 2022 ambush in western Queensland have thrown their support behind the federal government’s proposed gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi beach terror attack.
>…
>Speaking on behalf of the families of both officers, Rachel’s mother, Judy McCrow, called for gun reform.
>“We fully support the federal government in its plan to tighten guns laws and promote the national gun buyback scheme,” she said.
>“A recent research report by the Australia Institute found that theft of legal guns is now the main source of illegal guns in Australia.”
Australia’s “less guns” mentality has only become more entrenched over the decades, and there’s universal support for gun law reform. Especially after Christchurch 2019, Wieambilla 2022, Porepunkah 2025, and now Bondi 2025.
Crisafulli is opening his mouth, but the gun lobby groups are talking.
>National gun buyback doesn’t address antisemitism and hatred, Queensland premier says
Better title: Queensland premier does not understand purpose of national gun buyback.
I assumed the point would be to drastically reduce the number of guns in circulation, and thus less likely to fall off the grid and into the hands of bad actors that could act upon their hatred, in the long term. Opposed to a -1 to the antisemitism meter, per gun returned, sort of deal.
This is often a common form of critique I see in politics… Party puts forward a series of policies to address an issue, each policy focuses on a particular area of said issue more than the others etc. Opposition to that party attacks “one” policy as not being “enough” to address the issue, ignoring the fact, or distracting from, that it is apart of a yesteryear of solutions being applied. Not just a one off thing, or something that could be added to in future at worst, if said policy was the only one being introduced.
uh… yeah? why would it? if it was about antisemitism and hatred that would be some soft of secondary antisemitism and hatred based legislation, you know, like they did. Is he also confused about Traffic law legislation doesn’t address antisemitism and hatred?
It wasn’t meant to. It’s a diversionary thought bubble Albo had that he couldn’t walk back.
It’s a bit like saying that seat belt laws do not address poor driving or reduce the number of accidents , so clearly they are useless.
The premier needs to learn about the Swiss Cheese model of risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
It’s is a pity that the debate on Bondi and what should, or should not, be done fails to talk about risk models, because this is arguably all about risk management, not politics and emiruins.
And more importantly, a national gun buyback costs QLD money
But I’m not sure how he believes this won’t do anything to reduce guns in the hands of criminals and terrorists
Yeah but it will hopefully help address stuff like the sovereign citizens that shot at a bunch of cops.