Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Mackellar for raising the issue. While the government doesn't support the amendments and the form of doing this, we are in support of establishing a national firearms safety council. A similar conversation has been happening with the Greens in the Senate as we've been dealing with these issues over recent days, and earlier today I put in writing to Senator Waters that we will be establishing a national firearms safety council.

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