Andrew Gee (Calare, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to support the amendment of the member for Kennedy. At the heart of this amendment is a question that is being asked all over Australia and in particular in regional Australia, including the Calare electorate, and that is: how was it that these people, who were known to the security services since at least 2019, were able to access licensed firearms? Whilst I've heard what the Prime Minister has said, the member for Kennedy really homes in on this issue and makes it clear that this is something that the nation needs to deal with. This issue needs to be brought out into the open. It needs to be made very clear that, if you are known to the security services and you are on a watchlist, you simply cannot have firearms. Nobody in our part of the world can understand how this happened. That's why we need the royal commission, and that's why I support the amendments made by the member for Kennedy.

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