Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (part 2 of 2)
14 January 2026
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Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:54
Speaker 22
Nations was very significant, and they made the point that it it looked to them that it was time for an improvement in the standards for storage of guns across Australia because the uniform standard that was brought in in 1996 was just not fit for purpose anymore. We then had Tasmania move, I think, in 2015 and brought in some pretty good storage requirements because there had been such a large number of gun thefts in that state, including, instances of thieves just walking out with the entire gun safe full of 20 or 30 or 40 guns, and it was not uncommon. So Tasmania brought in some good requirements. For example, for guns... Sorry.
For storage of more than 10 guns required, security monitoring. And so Tasmania had the better gun storage requirements. But any other state that has the weaker requirements means their guns are more readily stolen, and then they just go into circulation around Australia. So what is necessary in our view is a a national committee that oversights the way gun regulation is regulated across Australia and enforced and how effective it is so that it can feed back to the national government who can steer the states in the right direction. Because at the moment, I'm afraid we've seen a bit of a race to the bottom with the gun lobby trying to get each state government to weaken its laws.
And we've seen that in Tasmania, and we've seen it in in New South Wales as well. So that... That's our answer to that question is a national body that can properly review and ensure compliance and and efficacy in those gun laws.
01:55 - 01:56
Thank you. Miss Davies?
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