Australia’s lower house of Parliament on Tuesday passed laws to enable a national gun buyback and tighten background checks ...

Australia is poised to pass new laws to enable a national gun buyback and tighten background checks for gun licences in ...

The legislation follows the country’s worst mass shooting in decades at Bondi Beach in Sydney last month. The bill passed the ...

The Albanese government’s tougher gun laws, brought to parliament in response to the Bondi massacre, have passed the lower ...

Anthony Albanese says government will not proceed with racial vilification provisions, which in current form ‘do not have the support of the Senate’ ...

Hate speech and gun control laws proposed by the Australian government in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach mass shooting were ...

After Australia's worst mass shooting in 1996, it took the government 12 days to ban semi-automatic weapons, organise a gun buyback scheme and introduce a ...

Parliament was recalled two weeks early to begin debate on gun control and hate speech reforms. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

For more on the aftermath of the shooting at Bondi Beach, we've called Rebecca Peters. She led the successful movement for gun reform in Australia after a mass shooting there in 1996 and has been ...

Australia is poised to pass new laws to enable ⁠a national gun buyback and tighten background checks for gun licences in ...

The bill, which was opposed by conservative lawmakers, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 96 to 45 and will now ...