Australia news live: Pauline Hanson opposes major gun buyback agreed in wake of Bondi terror attack

Anthony Albanese has just been speaking alongside the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns , about the state’s gun buyback scheme agreed in response to the Bondi terror attack.

double quotation mark Australians are quite rightly proud of our gun laws but the fact is there are more guns in Australia today than there were at the time of dealing with the Port Arthur gun buyback that occurred under the Howard government.

These arrangements are available to every state and territory, and this reform comes on top of previous reforms that have been undertaken by my government in partnership with states and territories in particular the first ever development of a national firearms register.

That’s absolutely critical. I’ll continue to work constructively with states and territories.

They will make their own decisions under our federation system. They are responsible. But what I would say and reiterate is that in the commonwealth they have a willing partner. We know this is universally supported in some quarters.

This is controversial and it will be opposed. But we’ve made a decision.