ALBANESE LABOR GOVERNMENT WILL ESTABLISH A NATIONAL GUN BUYBACK SCHEME

CANBERRA, ACT, Dec. 19 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

The Albanese Government will establish a National Gun Buyback Scheme to purchase surplus, newly banned and illegal firearms - the largest since the Howard Government in 1996.

This is another part of the Government's response to Sunday's deadly antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach.

Australia's gun laws were last substantially reformed in the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy.

Sunday's deadly ISIS inspired antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach highlights the need to finish the job the Howard Government started on gun reform.

We know that one of the terrorists from the weekend's attack held a firearm licence and had six guns.

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