Wahlquist, Calla: how Australia embraced gun control after Port Arthur

Wahlquist, Calla

It took one massacre: how Australia embraced gun control after Port Arthur‘, Guardian Australia, 15 March 2016

Twenty years on from the Port Arthur massacre (35 dead, 23 wounded), the article traces how Prime Minister announced a package of reforms 12 days after the event and how gun deaths (including suicides) have declined substantially since. Recently, though, there have been moves to wind back gun control.

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