Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. Why has the Minister representing the Prime Minister not been briefed on this issue? Does the minister agree that the proportion of deaths due to short guns has increased from less than 20 per cent to more than 50 per cent since 1996? Is it going to take a Dunblane or a Virginia Tech style massacre in this country before the leaders act to, for example, hold a gun summit and act against semiautomatic short weapons the same as after Port Arthur there was action against semiautomatic rifles?