confiscations in the run up to the port arthur massacre australia was tracking on the label and right now she's as the americans since not in ninety six there brings zero mass shootings people would not mind to be silent in stride no. one nation was coached on how to react if soft a gunman was a village to another measure in a strenuous iraqi officials suggested to one nation that they smear advocates of gun control for exploiting the massacre there used to raise children but. if your policy isn't good enough to stand. there you there. for. the really good that's a great way to go the n i raised. also included planting articles there's a lot of times we are right now for like a local sheriff in wisconsin or whatever and we'll drop dead or she will have been strapped it will do a lot of the leg work because these people are busy and this is our job so we'll help them and then they'll submit it with their name on it so that it looks organic and that it's coming from that community we will have we're all behind this charlie al-jazeera sydney. zero contacted all those who featured in this

port arthur massacre that you referenced earlier. and it's been a constant refrain from the n.r.a. that the national firearms agreement that emerged after the put out the massacre is a fluid document. it should be repealed poses a danger to america's second amendment if u.s. politicians follow suit and there have been multiple references from the us hillary clinton barack obama and others have mentioned the study is experiences something that should be perhaps looked at or followed in some respect in the united states the n.r.a. hates that so i decided to find a way to present and a story and who. held similar views and australian whose position was that the national firearms agreement in his trailer had gone too far and needed to be pulled back a bit so we were sort of singing from the same hymn book as it were and the n.r.a. welcomed him in. i want to go to a date which is nine hundred ninety six and this four straight c. is in the memory nine hundred ninety six when a there was a mass shooting in tasmania i want to remind an international audience if you don't remember this and

rifles and shotguns implemented after a mass shooting in one thousand nine hundred ninety six in port arthur tasmania when a gunman went on a rampage killing thirty five people and wounding twenty three the deadliest shooting in australian history the result was the national firearms program implementation act and a mandatory firearm buyback scheme in the united states where perhaps the world's physicists debate on gun control rages the powerful national rifle association or n.r.a. enjoys huge influence with us from sydney to tell us about this film and some of the findings peter charlie is an executive producer in the al-jazeera investigative unit also in sydney philip alpers associate professor at the university of sydney school of medicine and founding director of gun policy dot org and in auckland new zealand siena brown davis founding member of peace action that's a grassroots campaign good to have you here with us everybody peter the idea for this documentary eye catching title how to sell a massacre when did you decide you're going to make this film what was the prompt. well it will b

will be an amnesty, and many of these changes mirror what happened in australia following the 1996 port arthur gunman killed 35 people, and there was academic research last year in australia suggesting that australia's stricter gun laws had almost certainly prevented more mass shootings, so the new zealand government is very much hoping that that will be the effect here. britain's prime minister has blamed members of parliament for not delivering brexit on time. in a televised speech, theresa may claimed she was on the side of the british people, who she said were tired of the whole process and just wanted out of the european union. the uk is currently set to leave injust over a week, with no withdrawal deal approved by parliament. mrs may has asked brussels to delay brexit, but indications from eu officials are that a delay will only be granted if she can get her deal through parliament — and her speech has infuriated many of the mps she needs to pass it. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. what is really going on in there? grappling with what officialdom admits is a genuine crisis

the death toll continues to rise at port arthur where a gunman today when time random shooting spree the nightmare unfolded around how powerfully just commuting to get in a cafe but come the fall in the top five right gunmen stormed around the area unchallenged keeping his victims in this kind of play. the blues dixon proposes to soften up put in place following a message to a new strain in town of port arthur in one hundred ninety six. i'd never heard it got in the fall so my immediate thought was that it was a cop at our. window. in what was then one of the worst measure routings ever recorded in the world thirty five people were murdered. i'm seeing people. being shot and then i saw him and he had this massive very. large military waffle. and he was coming up behind my daughter. the killer was using an a.o.l. fifteen assault rifle it would become a weapon of choice in mass killings in america for years to come. no one's running no and screaming. that with every show. it's five is another life gone. and there's another life gone and is not a life gone. and you feel you're right mos

massacre many yea rs example after the port arthur massacre many years ago, where there was a big gunew zealand, you are the standard foreign category, the category a, do not need to be registered. we look at a person, registering the person, and we ascertain whether the police think they are fit and proper to have a firearms licence. if a person goes about getting an endorsement of a licence, where as an example and e category military style semiautomatic is wished to be used, possessed and held by a licensed holder, then they need to apply for an endorsement, and those firearms are registered. all endorsed firearms, collectors items, military style semiautomatics, handguns or pistols is we call them here, are actually registered with new zealand police so registration, i don't think is going to actually stop these crimes from occurring. registration may be able to trace some firearms after the event. but we need to look closer at how we stop these events from occurring in the first place. part of the reason why new zealand has such a successful regime in place is because we are look

restricted the sale of semiautomatic an automatic guns following a massacre in the tasmanian town of port arthur in one thousand nine hundred six. thirty five people were murdered by a gunman using an fifteen assault rifle six hundred fifty thousand weapons would confiscated and destroyed you probably don't really have to call to wipe out a national gun ban overnight but if you can work around the market where there goes eight improve the lives going on a daily basis it does demonstrate that we begin tonight in the kids walk you can start making a difference in a break down the narrative so that people on this reaction to going to use it make it. astray strict gun control laws are problematic for the n.r.a. is officials have said they fear success could be used to limit gun ownership in america it's the left wing anti gun owners who literally point to australia as this shining model as to why we need gun bans and gun confiscation in the run up to the port arthur massacre the struggle was tracking on the label and right now shootings as the americans since not having any six their brain zero mass

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softening of the strict gun which the destroy you put in place following a messenger in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't come saying people are going to go go god help them to get out of not having guns to talk of them to get him politically correct puff and if it is it's one portion or you know it will poison our whole unless we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. well speaking to us earlier from sydney peter charlie says the one nation parties facing intense public scrutiny in australia. ments reaction here front page news in every newspaper leading story on every television and radio reports the prime minister and the attorney general have both commented on it the attorney general says there needs to be an inquiry or investigation into the into the revelations it's just a very very large story here it's taken a story of us still there is a great sense of unease surrounding the revelations contained in the documentary. most of the commentary has been directed very negatively

softening of the strict gun laws the destroy you put in place following a messenger in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't times thing people are going to go. god help them to get him out of not having gotten to talk of them to get him politically correct puff and if it is it for poison or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. the u.s. is struggling with an opioid addiction epidemic that's killed more than two hundred thousand people in two decades now a company blamed for helping fuel that crisis has agreed to pay two hundred seventy million dollars in fines al-jazeera as alan fischer reports it is a new day in oklahoma. and for the nation in our battle against addiction. it's estimated one hundred thirty americans die every day from an opioid overdose the president has declared it a public health emergency nobody has seen anything like what's going on now as americans we cannot allow this to continue several states including oklahoma say

softening of the strict gun lewis the destroy you put in place following a message from in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't constantly people are going to hurt us to go got them got to know that they got him to talk of them to get him a politically correct bum and if it is if one portion or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. enter thomas has more from sydney. the revelations are still dominating the news here in australia this is the front page of one paper scorched and loaded now that refers to the two one nation officials who were caught on camera trying to get money out of the us gun lobby now saying that when they were filmed they were drunk they drank too much whisky too much scotch by the filmmaker from al-jazeera who made this program says that's just not true at all he filmed hours of footage of them in business meetings as well as in bars and they were consistently saying that they wanted to get money out of the us gun lobby cons

the death toll continues to rise at port arthur where a gunman today when time random shooting spree the nightmare unfolded around how popular uses the moving to get in a cafe but come up before a lot of the time was right gunman stormed around the area and challenged people his victims in this trying to break. the laws dixon proposes to soften or put in place following a message or a new strain in town a quarter of a nine hundred ninety six. odd neighborhood it got in the fall so my immediate thought was that it was a car backfiring. window. in what was then one of the worst measure things ever recorded in the world thirty five people were murdered. i'm seeing people. being shot and then i saw him and he had this mess if very. large military were awful. and he was coming up behind my daughter. the killer was using an a.o.l. fifteen assault rifle it would become a weapon of choice in mass killings in america for years to come. no one's running no one's screaming. that with every shot that's fired is another life gone. and there's another life gone and there's not a lot gone. and you

the death toll continues to rise at port arthur where a gunman today when time random shooting spree the nightmare unfolded around half populations are moving again in a cafe but come up before a lot of the time was right gunman stormed around the area unchallenged people his victims in this crowd of great. to lose dixon proposes to soften or put in place following a message or a new strain in town a quarter of a nine hundred ninety six. odd neighborhood it got in the fall so my immediate thought was that it was a car backfiring. window. in what was then one of the worst measure things ever recorded in the world so he five people were mowed. i'm seeing people. being shot and then i saw him and he had this mess if very. large military were awful. and he was coming up behind my daughter. the killer was using an a.o. fifteen assault rifle it would become a weapon of choice in mass killings in america for years to come. no one's running no one's screaming. that with every shot that's fired is another life gone. and there's another life gone and is not a life gone. and you feel you're rig

softening of the strict gun laws the destroy you put in place following a massacre in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings.

australia as this shining model as to why we need gun bans and gun confiscation in the run up to the port arthur massacre australia was tracking on the liberal and right my shoes as the americans since not having any six their brain zero mass shootings of people but not to be a silent in stride no. one nation was coached on how to react if soft a gun was a village to another measure in a stranger in a officials suggested to one nation that they smear advocates of gun control for exploiting the massacre there used to raise children but for. them to go on if your policy isn't good enough to stand. there. for. the really good that's a great way to go the. playbook also included planting articles there's a lot of times we'll write down for like a local sheriff in wisconsin or whatever and we'll drop dead or she will have distracted we'll do a lot of the legwork because these people are busy and this is our job so we'll help them and then they'll submit it with their name on it so that it looks organic and it's coming from that community we will have we're all behind this charlie al-jazeera sydney on

led the campaign to reform australia's gun laws after the port arthur massacre. .ne last question the laws were changed in 1996 in australia after 35 people were killed in tasmania. how mamany massacreses have thee been since? >> well,l, since then, we have never had another one off these public mass shootingngs of the type t that we staff a l lot of. whatat we have had is a couplelf famimily killilings where a fatr has killed his famimily while ty were sleep, for r example.e. but that is a fffferent typepe o phenomenon and it dodoes not require e semiautotomatic. but when youou think about these kinds of evevents that are -- tt the e u.s., for amplple, so plagueued by and the type e of t we had a 199996, the one that jt occurred in new zealand, we have never had another event like that. amy: rebecca peters, thank you for being with us. we can't count the number of times in the united states, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in this last 23 years. this is democracy now! we will link to your piece headlined "'it didn't have to be this way': how the gun lobby made new zealand less saf

the strict gun the english the destroy you put in place following a message from in the town of port arthur in ninety ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't understand people are going to go god help them to get him. to talk of them to get him politically correct puff and if it is it's one portion or you know it will poison the whole unless we stop it while peter charlie joins us now live from sydney a pizza after what's just happened in new zealand what sort of reaction has your investigation how it's been a strain leah. it's had an absolutely immense reaction here front page news in every newspaper leading story and every television and radio reports the prime minister and the attorney general have both commented on it the attorney general says there needs to be an inquiry or investigation into into the revelations it's just a very very large story here it's taken a story of a storm and let's look at the political fallout in more detail you mentioned the prime minister has no school can i tell you did tell us more about th

after the 1996 port arthur massacre, australia banned semiautomatic weapons and held national amnestyzealand may follow. the prime minister says measures veeen agreed in principle. prime min. ardern: when australia found itself tagically in a similar position to where we are noy took 12 days to make the decision. we have taken 72 hours. there is still some detail that needs to be worked through. i want to do that, but still move as quickly as we can. hywel: just as in australia, just as in america, taken a terrifying violent act to wsovoke a debate on new zealand's gun but just as in the other countries, there is a powerful gun lobby likely to resist chge. the christchurch gunman bought 50 firearms online within four months from th company. the store in the city remains open, and the ner defiant. >> he was a brand-new purchaser with a brand-new lense. it was an ordinary sale. hywel: while he was keen to go before the cameras, he would not answer our questions on sarestricting gus. >> i totally agree there should be a gun debate, but today's not the day. please respect me on this. i am

details on that, and she was asked about australia's example, that australia took 12 days after the port arthurassacre in the 90s to implement gun control and gun control changes, which included a buyback scheme and other gun control measures. presumably she will continue to talk to her cabinet, she suggested there might be some more details that we would get on those gun control changes before her cabinet meets next week. she did also talk about other issues as she was being questioned in that news conference. she was asked about whether she had had any further update from facebook. there have been a lot of discussions around the live stream of the attack that went out on facebook and was then repeated many times on social media, and she said she had no further update. we have missed a little bit of that news conference, so missed a little bit of that news conference, so we missed a little bit of that news conference, so we just want to bring you some of what she had to say. conference, so we just want to bring you some of what she had to saylj had some initial proposals for cabinet to discuss

softening of the strict gun lewis the destroy you put in place following a message from in the town of port arthur in ninety ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't understand people are going to go dark help them get him. to talk of them to get politically correct and if it is for poison or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. twelve years after the civil war and a pall ended some of the victims are still waiting for justice a process put in place to deal with the crimes committed has made little progress leaving for their safety in a stretch there has more from katmandu. supporters of the maoist rebels who fought the government forces for ten years gathered in the capital on wednesday to celebrate the anniversary of what was known as the people's war the conflict began in one nine hundred ninety six when maoists launched a campaign against the country's constitutional monarchy which ruled the country more than seventeen thousand people were killed and thirteen hundred remain missing t

the death toll continues to rise at port arthur where a gunman today when time random shooting spreethe nightmare unfolded around hot coffee you just commuting to get in a cafe but come before me in the top five right gunmen stormed around the area unchallenged keeping his victims in this town of going. to lose dixon proposes to soften up put in place following a message to a new strain in town of port arthur in one hundred ninety six. i'd never heard it got in the fall so my immediate thought was that it was a cop that are. in what was then one of the worst measure routings ever recorded in the world so he five people were mowed. i'm saying people. being shot and then i saw him and he had this massive very. large military waffle. and he was coming up behind my daughter. the killer was using an a.o.l. fifteen assault rifle it would become a weapon of choice in mass killings in america for years to come. no one's running no one's screaming. but with every show. well that's five is another life gone. and there's another life goal and it's not a life gone. and you feel you're right most

the death toll continues to rise at port arthur where a gunman today when time random shooting spree the nightmare unfolded around half populations are moving again in a cafe but come up before a lot of the time was right gunman stormed around the area and challenged people his victims in this trying to break. the laws dixon proposes to soften or put in place following a message or a new strain in town a quarter of a nine hundred ninety six. odd neighborhood it got in the fall so my immediate thought was that it was a car backfiring. window. in what was then one of the worst measure things ever recorded in the world so he five people were mowed. i'm saying people. being shot and then i saw him and he had this mess if very. large military were awful. and he was coming up behind my daughter. the killer was using an a.o.l. fifteen assault rifle it would become a weapon of choice in mass killings in america for years to come. no one's running no one's screaming. but with every shot that's fired is another life go on. and there's another life. and it's not a lot gone. and you feel you're

will be an amnesty, and many of these changes mirror what happened in australia following the 1996 port arthur, and there was academic research last year in australia suggesting that australia's stricter gun laws had almost certainly prevented more mass shootings, so the new zealand government is very much hoping that will be via fax to you. very briefly, i know she said this is just the start of the government's effo rts just the start of the government's efforts to reform gun laws in new zealand. do you have any sense of what else is in the pipeline? part of the problem with new zealand's gun laws, as they stood at this time last week, is that you had to be 16 to own a firearm, or 18 to a semi—automatic military style weapon. but part of the problem was that for the vast majority of firearms there was no registry. you had to have a license to have a gun, but you didn't have to register individual firearms. but you didn't have to register individualfirearms. so but you didn't have to register individual firearms. so the but you didn't have to register individualfirearms. so the prime minister

after the port arthur massacre in tasmania where 35 people died, the newly—elected conservative primerangle all nine jurisdictions in australia, states and territories, into agreeing to uniform gun control laws right across the country. quite stringent. they also bought back and destroyed all the semiautomatic firearms they could find in the country and 1 million guns were destroyed in the end. it is about 30% of the stock of guns in australia. if you did the same thing in the united states it would be 90 million guns. so it was a huge effort and the most important part of that in the long—term was the registration of firearms right across australia. now new zealand is almost alone with the united states and canada in not having, in not registering 94% of its firearms. it was that large gap in the law that facilitated this crime. just briefly. would registration necessarily have stopped someone from still using those guns to commit such a horrible act? not the guns that are already in the community but they would stop this person or other people from being supplied with guns on the gr

after the port arthur massacre in tasmania where 35 people died in the newly elected conservative primetions in australia, states and territories, into agreeing to uniform gun control laws right across the country. quite stringent. they also brought back and —— ball back and destroyed all the semiautomatic firearms they could find in the country and 1 million guns were destroyed in the end. it is about 30% of the stock of guns in australia. if you did the same thing in the united states it would be 90 million guns. so it was a huge asset and the most important pa rt a huge asset and the most important part of that in the long—term was the registration of firearms right across australia. now new zealand is almost alone with the united states and canada in not having, in not registering 9li% and canada in not having, in not registering 94% of its firearms. it was that large gap in the law that facilitated this crime. just briefly. would registration necessarily have stopped someone from still using those guns to commit such a horrible act? not the guns that are already in the community th

after the port arthur massacre in tasmania where 35 people died the newly elected conservative primell nine jurisdictions howard took 12 days to wrangle all ninejurisdictions in howard took 12 days to wrangle all nine jurisdictions in australia, howard took 12 days to wrangle all ninejurisdictions in australia, to states and territories, into agreeing to uniform gun law controls all over the country. quite stringent. they also brought back —— was back and destroyed or the semi— automatic firearms they could find in the country and i automatic firearms they could find in the country and 1 million guns we re in the country and 1 million guns were destroyed in the end. that is about 30% of the stock of guns in australia. if you did the same thing in the united states it would be 19 million guns. it was a huge effort and the most important part of that, probably, in the long—term was the registration of firearms right across australia. new zealand is almost alone with the united states and canada in not having, in not registering 94% of its firearms. it was that large gap in the law that

softening of the strict gun lewis the destroy you put in place following a massacre in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't come saying people are going to be your first trial you go dark and then you get a part of not having gotten to talk of them to get a politically correct part and if it is it for poison or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney well speaking to us earlier from sydney peter charlie says the one nation party is facing intense public scrutiny in australia. ments reaction here front page news in every newspaper leading story and every television and radio reports the prime minister and the attorney general have both commented on it the attorney general says there needs to be an inquiry or investigation into the into the revelations it's just a very very large story here it's taken a study of us still there is a great sense of unease surrounding the revelations contained in the documentary. most of the commentary has been dire

after the 1996 port arthur massacre, australia banned semiautomatic weapons and held a national amnestyd may now follow. the prime minister says measures have been agreed, in principle. when australia found itself tragically in a similar position to what we find ourselves now, they took 12 days to make their decision. we have taken 72 hours. there is, though, still some detail that needs to be worked through. i want to do that, but still move as quickly as we can. just as in australia, just as in america, it's taken a terrifying, violent act to provoke a debate on new zealand's gun laws. but, just as in those other countries, there is a powerful gun lobby here, likely to resist change. the christchurch gunman bought four firearms online within four months, from this company. its store in the city remains open, and its owner defiant. he was a brand—new purchaser, with a brand—new licence. it was an ordinary sale. and while he was keen to go before the cameras, he wouldn't answer our questions on restricting gun sales. i totally agree there should be a gun debate. but today is not the day

softening of the strict gun lewis the destroy you put in place following a messenger in the town of port arthur in ninety ninety six but didn't seek. they recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't chime saying people are going to go over the stile you go well god help them to get on top of not having guns to talk about them to get in a politically correct part and if it is if one portion or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney. enter thomas has more now from sydney. the revelations are still dominating the news here in australia this is the front page of one paper scorched and loaded now that refers to the two one nation officials who were caught on camera trying to get money out of the us gun lobby now saying that when they were filmed they were drunk they drank too much whisky too much scotch by the filmmaker from al-jazeera who made this program says that's just not true at all he filmed hours of footage of them in business meetings as well as in bars and they were consistently saying that they wanted to get m

softening of the strict gun really wish to destroy you put in place following a massacre in the town of port arthur in ninety ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't constantly people are going to try to go dark then to get him out of not having guns to talk to them to get him the politically correct problem and if it is it's one portion or you know it will not hold much we stop peter charlie al-jazeera sydney and you can watch the full program from al-jazeera is investigative unit how to sell a lot sicker on al-jazeera on thursday the twenty eighth of march at six g.m.t. then israel his opposition leader is urging his supporters to protest this weekend against the latest nationwide blackout which is dragging into a third day. one says the blackout has affected ninety one percent of the country it's the second major power outage this month president says the u.s. and the venezuelan opposition of sabotaging the country's the credit power systems schools and state offices were closed on wednesday because of the outages. the group behin

after the 1996 port arthur massacre, australia banned semiautomatic weapons and held a national amnestyminister says measures have been agreed in principle. when australia found itself tragically in a similar position to what we find ourselves now, they took 12 days to make their decision. we have taken 72 hours. there is still some detail that needs to be worked through. i want to do that, but still move as quickly as we can. just as in australia, just as in america, it's taken a terrifying, violent act to provoke a debate on new zealand's gun laws. but, just as in those of the countries, there is a powerful gun lobby here, likely to resist change. the christchurch gunman bought four firearms online within four months, from this company. its store in the city remains open, and its owner defiant. he was a new purchaser, with a brand—new licence. it was an ordinary sale. and while he was keen to go before the cameras, he wouldn't answer our questions on restricting gun sales. i totally agree there should be a gun debate. but today is not the day. please respect me on this. i am going to

after the 1996 port arthur massacre, australia banned semiautomatic weapons and held a national amnestyw follow. the prime minister says measures have been agreed, in principle. when australia found itself tragically in a similar position to what we find ourselves now, they took 12 days to make their decision. we have taken 72 hours. there is, though, still some detail that needs to be worked through. i want to do that, but still move as quickly as we can. just as in australia, just as in america, it's taken a terrifying, violent act to provoke a debate on new zealand's gun laws. but, just as in those other countries, there is a powerful gun lobby here, likely to resist change. the christchurch gunman bought four firearms online within four months, from this company. its store in the city remains open, and its owner defiant. he was a brand—new purchaser, with a brand—new licence. it was an ordinary sale. and while he was keen to go before the cameras, he wouldn't answer our questions on restricting gun sales. i totally agree there should be a gun debate. but today is not the day. please

after the 1996 port arthur massacre, australia banned semiautomatic weapons and held a national amnestyllow. the prime minister says measures have been agreed, in principle. when australia found itself tragically in a similar position to what we find ourselves now, they took 12 days to make their decision. we have taken 72 hours. there is, though, still some detail that needs to be worked through. i want to do that, but still move as quickly as we can. just as in australia, just as in america, it's taken a terrifying, violent act to provoke a debate on new zealand's gun laws. but, just as in those other countries, there is a powerful gun lobby here, likely to resist change. the christchurch gunman bought four firearms online within four months, from this company. its store in the city remains open, and its owner defiant. he was a brand—new purchaser, with a brand—new licence. it was an ordinary sale. and while he was keen to go before the cameras, he wouldn't answer our questions on restricting gun sales. i totally agree there should be a gun debate. but today is not the day. please res

softening of the strict gun when wish to destroy you put in place following a massacre in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't charge that people are going to go. dark and then go to the pub not having guns to talk about them to get in the politically correct part and if it is it for poison or you know it will poison our whole life we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney was speaking to us earlier from said may peter charlie says the one nation party is facing intense public scrutiny in australia. ments reaction here front page news in every newspaper leading story and every television and radio reports the prime minister and the attorney general have both commented on it the attorney general says there needs to be an inquiry or investigation into the into the revelations it's just a very very large story here it's taken a study of us still there is a great sense of unease surrounding the revelations contained in the documentary. most of the commentary has been directed very negatively

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softening of the strict gun which the distro you put in place following a messenger in the town of port arthur in nine hundred ninety six but in secretly recorded meetings steve dixon promised to work to reverse the laws if we don't come saying people are going to be hookers are you go god help them to get him out of not having guns to talk over them to get him politically correct but i mean if it is it's one portion or you know it will poison our whole unless we stop it before charlie al-jazeera sydney and andrew thomas now has more from sydney. the revelations are still dominating the news here in australia this is the front page of one paper scorched unloaded now that refers to the two one nation officials who were caught on camera trying to get money out of the us gun lobby now saying that when they were filmed they were drunk they drank too much whiskey too much scotch by the filmmaker from al-jazeera who made this program says that's just not true at all he filmed hours of footage of them in business meetings as well as in bars and they were consistently saying that they wanted to get mo

gun laws after the port arthur massacre some years ago though in conjunction with all of this will be a buyback scheme because obviously lots of people in new zealand have these weapons there are a quarter of a million people in this country the populations of the five million a quarter of a million people who have gun licenses no one quite knows how many guns they have collectively but a lot of them will have these sorts of weapons that are now illegal well there is a buyback scheme that's going to be introduced it's going to cost well over one hundred million dollars for the government to in effect pay people compensation to hand over their weapons but they expect everybody to do so those weapons are in effect illegal and they want them handed in one hundred fast they want them off the streets and everybody here that i've spoken to is praising the prime minister for having taken such swift decisive action i haven't yet heard anybody in person. a word of criticism over this on talkback radio i'll be listening to a bit of that there are some people who say that these high powered weap