Australian firearms registry ‘one step closer’, with cabinet decision expected mid-year

Renewed calls for database to track guns across the country sparked by fatal 2022 Wieambilla shooting

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The creation of Australia’s first national firearms register “is one step closer to reality”, the attorney general Mark Dreyfus has declared.

Dreyfus made the remark after police ministers held an extraordinary meeting in Sydney on Monday, agreeing to launch public consultation for the register before a decision by national cabinet in mid-2023.

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