Aug 18, 2026 · 16 min · 13 segments
New South Wales will become the first state to undertake Australia’s biggest gun buyback in 30 years in a jointly funded scheme in response to the Bondi beach terror attack. The move has been welcomed…
Henry BuckleyGuest
Rafqa ToumaHost
[gentle music] After the Port Arthur massacre 30 years ago, both sides of politics supported a national gun buyback scheme.
But on Sunday, when Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns announced the state's buyback scheme following December's antisemitic terrorist attack in Bondi, this time the response was far from bipartisan.
But to suggest a gun buyback is gonna solve this for us, is gonna stop another Bondi, it's absolute [censored].
It wasn't the guns, it was the people behind the guns that are responsible for the Bondi massacre.
Let's make that quite clear.
There's around four million guns in Australia, close to a million more than in 1996.
But the new scheme, which wants states to help the Commonwealth pay for the buyback, has been met with resistance.
Australia's gun control is often touted as the best in the world, but after Bondi, is it still working? Today, New South Wales state reporter Henry Buckley on the battle lines being drawn over gun reform.
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[gentle music] After the Port Arthur massacre 30 years ago, both sides of politics supported a national gun buyback scheme.
But on Sunday, when Albanese and New South Wales Premier Chris Minns announced the state's buyback scheme following December's antisemitic terrorist attack in Bondi, this time the response was far from bipartisan.
But to suggest a gun buyback is gonna solve this for us, is gonna stop another Bondi, it's absolute [censored].
It wasn't the guns, it was the people behind the guns that are responsible for the Bondi massacre.
Let's make that quite clear.
There's around four million guns in Australia, close to a million more than in 1996.
But the new scheme, which wants states to help the Commonwealth pay for the buyback, has been met with resistance.
Australia's gun control is often touted as the best in the world, but after Bondi, is it still working? Today, New South Wales state reporter Henry Buckley on the battle lines being drawn over gun reform.
