Gun control : what Australia got right (and wrong) / Tom Frame.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frame, Tom, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howard, John, 1939-.

Howard, John.

Gun control--Australia.

Gun control.

Australia--Politics and government.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : UNSW Press, [2019]

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996 - when a gunman killed 35 people and seriously wounded another 21 in a quiet town in Tasmania - John Howard, a conservative prime minister who had been in office for just six weeks, moved swiftly to revolutionise Australia's gun control laws. The National Firearms Agreement, produced just twelve days after the massacre, with support from all levels of government and across the Australian political divide, but derided by Howard's natural political allies in the US, is now held up around the world as a model for gun control. Gun Control draws on interviews with those who supported and opposed the new laws, and asks whether the aftermath of the tragedy might have been a lost opportunity to achieve much more than simply preventing a repeat of Port Arthur - vitally important though that was. Tom Frame argues that the mechanisms for amending national firearms agreement are in need of substantial revision alongside the agreement itself. Frame analyses whether the Australian Government achieved its intention, and what it might have done in response to the massacre, and didn't.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

A Word To Readers

Glossary

1. A Day Like No Other

2. Penalising The Law-Abiding?

3. A Nation Divided

4. Restricting Freedoms, Saving Lives

5. A Problem In The Making

6. Elusive Solutions

7. A Deadly Debate

8. A Strange Alliance

9. The Best Thing He Ever Did

10. Conflict Without Conclusion

Further Reading

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781742244433

1742244432

OCLC:

1117495389