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Jodie Gien visits the memorial at Bondi Pavilion, two days after the mass shooting at Bondi Beach.

Liberals must not continue to fray around gun law reforms

Renegade Liberal MPS should be brought back into line on gun laws.

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Member for Badgerys Creek, Tanya Davies, voted against a government motion reiterating support for tighter gun laws.

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
Wendy Tuckerman in parliament.

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
NSW guns HP

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
Dennis Richardson shocked the Jewish community by resigning from the 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
Outgoing Premier Hon Steven Miles addresses media for the first time following the Labor party’s defeat in the 2024 Queensland State Election.

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
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Protesters taking part in the March for Palestine in Brisbane in August, attended by tens of thousands of people

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
Premier of Queensland David Crisafulli during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 18 February 2026.

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
Protesters taking part in August 2025’s March for Palestine in Brisbane, which attendance estimates of XX,000 people.

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