Gun laws were tightened in Australia after 35 people were killed in a mass shooting in Tasmania nearly 30 years ago.

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 licensing system to weed out people ...

Let’s take a look at the numbers: Australia’s gun homicide rate remains among the lowest in the developed world. Recent statistics show that for the year spanning July 2023 to June 2024, the nation ...

It introduced stricter gun laws after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, but some say they now need to be tightened further.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota praised Australia for its strict gun control laws Sunday, even though those measures failed ...

Among the new measures being considered are capping the number of firearms that can be owned by an individual, limiting the types of guns and making Australian citizenship a condition of gun ownership ...

These days, there isn’t an issue Phil Mickelson can resist weighing in on. In the wake of Sunday’s deadly Bondi Beach attack, where 16 people were killed and 42 were injured, Australian Prime Minister ...

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 ...

When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia's political leaders united to implement some of the West's ...

Australian leaders promised Monday to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. At least 15 people died in the ...

The New South Wales Premier said the anti-terror measures would keep the community safe.