Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the Australian Government overhauling gun laws off the back of the Bondi shooting

The deadly Bondi Beach shooting, which saw 16 people killed and dozens more injured, has prompted the Australian Government to tighten up gun laws following the incident.

The Government revealed plans to further restrict gun licences to citizens only - with limits on the types of guns and number obtained. 

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says questions have been raised over why people who live in suburban Sydney needed multiple weapons.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business. Murray Older was with us out
of Australia. Murray, good afternoon, h r in you. Now
there's just update us on the gun laws, the situation there.
It looks like there are changes coming.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, that's right on the back of what happened at
bon Day. On Sunday evening, there was a national Cabinet
meeting and emergency Cabinet meeting. This was set up during
the COVID years. It was consisted of federal representatives in
all the states and territories. And yet there's going to
be a tightening of gun laws. But you hear Chris
Men's there and that clip you played, you think, well,

(00:39):
why the hell wasn't this done earlier. The guy who
was killed at Bondi on Friday on the Sunday night
was the owner of six guns, shotguns and long rifles,
long barreled rifles. Now you'd have to ask yourself why
on earth would some guy living in suburban Sydney need
like a small armory. It's different for country people. They

(01:01):
need to go out and shoot feral pigs and feral
goats and all the rest of it. They need to
put down animals humanely, but there's no reason for a
fellow in suburban Sydney to have six very high powered weapons.
That's one thing you're looking at. You think, why was
it done earlier. They're going to look at tightening who
can own guns, so they're gonna limit gun numbers. We
think they're going to tighten who can own them. You

(01:23):
have to be a citizen to own guns now. But
they wouldn't have stopped the young fellow who is in hospital.
He was shot and nearly killed alongside his father. He
was born here, so heaven only knows what they're going
to do. John Howard, the former Prime minister, very interesting today.
He came out and said, listen, do not let this

(01:43):
government use tighter gun laws as a smoke screen, as
a diversion to distract from their lack of action to
combat anti Semitism. He was very strong on this, and
I mean Albany's under a lot of pressure. Elbow's in
a lot of pressure for failing to really curb this.
It's the only way to describe it. In anti semitism,
fire bomb attacks on homes, on synagogues, and John Howard

(02:06):
made the point this can happen Sunday, can happen when
the forces of hatred are allowed to spread and grow unchecked.
So watch that space as well. Albany's on a bit
of pressure. They're going to be scrambling now to get
something together.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
One hundred percent. A similar thing happened here after we
had Mosque shootings Murray, and everyone said, well, you just
covering up for the failings of the fact that the
guy could get a gun in the first place. You know,
he shouldn't have been allowed to, but did and rules
were broken. What about the Philippines trip. What's happening here?
What do we know?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, the ABC reported this early today this morning, and
now the ABC reporting that it's been confirmed by an
anonymous source in the security industry. Yes, father and son
went to the Philippines in November. The Australian Federal Police
is on the case here. Speculation they flew to Manila
and then went down to the southern Philippine and actually

(03:01):
had some military training with a group down there that's
banned in this country. Apparently. See I know nothing about this,
but when ISIS was chased out of the Middle East,
apparently they went down and set up a Southeast Asian
branch in the Southern Philippines and me into now I
think so anyway, that's a line of an active line

(03:23):
of inquiry. Now that the Sun, by the way, was
interviewed in twenty nineteen by ASIO, which is our domestic
security agency, about his connections to members of an ISIS
cell that ass knew was operating in Sydney. They busted
the cell, but this kid fell through the obviously fell
through the cracks and by the way, in the car

(03:44):
that father and son left at Bondai before they began
their murderous, bloody rampage, police have found ISIS flags and
some improvised explosive devices that did not go off. So,
you know, on the primer facing, you think, wow, how
they held all they you know, I mean, is this
not being flagged? And I know it's easy to sit

(04:06):
here and criticize and the wake of what happened, but
you just think, well, Heaven's above, he's a guy who's
been investigated once after the Philippines. What are you going
there for with that? Oh? Okay, yeah, what sight's saying? Whatever?
I mean, you just you expect more. Perhaps it's unrealistic
to expect more, Ryan, but your buddy will do.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think it's absolutely reasonable to expect more, especially when
your muddy, your your buddies with a with an isis
guy you know who's now in prison? All right, must
thanks that that's Murray Old's out of Australia.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
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