DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO LAUNCH WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY COURSE IN MILITARY SCHOOLS THIS FALL

Sun 16 August 2026:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Sunday that New South Wales will launch a gun buyback program in November.

This forms part of a national response to the fatal Sydney beach attack last year and will include stricter checks on gun licences along with a crackdown on hate.

The measures targeting firearm ownership are a reaction to the December 14, 2025, gun attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, New South Wales, that killed 15 people.

The alleged gunmen used powerful firearms that were legally obtained.

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Australians owned a record ‌4.1 million firearms last year, the government has said, with more than 1.1 million of those in New South Wales, the country’s most populous state.

New South Wales’ gun buyback scheme is scheduled to start on November 2, and will see the state offer owners up to 1,000 Australian dollars ($700) per handgun or rifle handed in.

“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,” Albanese said in televised remarks.

In the 1996 Port Arthur attack, a lone gunman killed 35 people and led to sweeping restrictions on ownership of automatic and semi-automatic firearms in Australia.

Since the Bondi Beach attack, New South Wales state has introduced its own laws limiting gun ownership to four guns per person.

Police say the attack was carried out by a father and son duo and was inspired by ISIL (ISIS). The surviving suspect, ‌Naveed ‌Akram, 24, is yet to enter pleas to several charges, including 15 counts of murder.

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