More akin to an intelligence review, the 14 recommendations in the interim report might help government agencies, but don’t yet reckon with the biggest questions.
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The federal government gave the states an April 1 deadline to sign on to the buyback. With that date come and gone, the future of the plan is up in the air.
The prime minister sliced off parts of the bill to increase its chances of passing at a special sitting of parliament this week,
Rather than unifying the country, it appears the government’s overreach on gun legislation has paved the way for distrust and division.
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have a gun in their household, making it hard to get guns off the streets – even if new gun restrictions are passed.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
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Professor of Criminology, Deakin University
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University