Gun control
- Editorial
- Opinion
Liberals must not continue to fray around gun law reforms
Renegade Liberal MPS should be brought back into line on gun laws.
- The Herald's View
Latest
Three Liberal MPs cross floor to oppose tighter gun laws
Liberal opposition to the government’s gun laws is growing, with one MP declaring the amendments do not deal with “the real problem”.
- Max Maddison
The embarrassing email blunder that revealed NSW Libs’ stance on gun laws
Opposition leader Kellie Sloane has indicated the Liberals, who are under threat from One Nation, would be prepared to rethink NSW’s new gun laws.
- Alexandra Smith
- Exclusive
- Guns
The ‘gaping hole’ being used to get a gun licence in NSW
People claiming to be recreational hunters or sporting shooters but who do neither are slipping through the net.
- Perry Duffin
- Analysis
- Antisemitism royal commission
The royal commission already looked rushed. Now it’s ‘embarrassment all round’
Dennis Richardson could have carried on for a few more weeks and done his best. If he felt overpaid, he could have taken a pay cut. But there’s plenty of blame to go around.
- Matthew Knott
- Perspective
- Queensland government
Labor finds some spine on hate laws – and the LNP reaches for outrage
The opposition’s most significant symbolic gesture since it was swept from power at the 2024 state election carries risk for the party on two fronts.
- Matt Dennien
Labor opposes hate speech and gun control law to LNP jeers
Queensland’s Deputy Premier has launched an inflammatory tirade accusing Labor of supporting terrorists and antisemitism after Thursday’s parliamentary vote.
- Matt Dennien
Father who gave teen a rifle for Christmas found guilty of murder after school shooting
Prosecutors said Colin Gray knew his son, Colt, was obsessed with school shooters and had a bedroom shrine to the gunman in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
- Jeff Martin
State walks back attorney-general’s powers as Labor moves to support hate speech bill
Queensland’s opposition will ultimately back the contentious hate speech and gun law changes, while the government has made a last-minute change to the bill.
- Matt Dennien and Catherine Strohfeldt
Police will ‘choose their mark’ to enforce protest slogan ban
High-ranking police faced questions about how they would crack down on crowds of thousands if they chanted phrases banned under the new laws.
- Matt Dennien