Anthony Albanese says he is “ready for the fight” to tighten Australia’s firearms laws after the Bondi beach terror attack, as the gun lobby and the National party push back against changes they claim are attempts to divert attention from radicalisation.
Former Liberal prime minister John Howard, who introduced sweeping gun control measures after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, said he’d support tightening firearms laws and there were too many guns in Australia, but claimed Albanese was focusing on the wrong issue.
Howard said the debate over gun laws was “a diversion” and that “the issue here is antisemitism”.
“The failure over the last two years has been that of the federal government, led by the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to bring sufficient energy to a broad-based attack on the evil of antisemitism,” he told Sky News.
Albanese’s push to tighten gun laws has the backing of Walter Mikac, whose wife and two da
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