QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr BURKE (Watson—Minister for the Arts, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Leader of the House) (15:04): I thank the member for Bennelong for raising the issue. After the appalling antisemitic terror attack which occurred in Bondi, we had an emergency sitting of this House where we took action on both the motivation and the method that was used in that attack.

And the royal commission, in its interim report, called for the Commonwealth and the states to be implementing the buyback scheme. The government has now provided to all the states and territories, to all jurisdictions—because most of them have implemented it, in slightly different ways—a flexible system to allow them to participate in the buyback. Effectively, once any state is part of the buyback, they can then choose to include what the price points are and what ammunition, accessories and dealer compensation would be, and, wherever that lands within their compensation model, the cost is shared fifty-fifty with the Commonwealth.

For example, phase 2 of the New South Wales buyback scheme, which starts in early 2027, will provide a pathway to compensation for eligible higher-value firearms with an indicative market value above $3,000. I respect that when we established the buyback scheme it was not bipartisan across the parliament. Part of what didn't surprise me was that there would be a private member's bill in the Senate that would look at undoing this.

But what stunned me—absolutely stunned me—with the private senator's bill that is in the Senate right now, moved by Senator Mckenzie, which I presume has the support of the National Party, the Liberal Party and One Nation, is that it doesn't just go against the aspects of the government's changes that deal with the number of firearms and the firearms that were used at Bondi.

We all accept and we all know that the majority of gun owners are responsible people who use firearms for work, for sport and for recreation. But I'll tell you what stunned me: that legislation in the Senate right now, supported by all three of those parties, calls for the undoing of the restrictions we did on 3D printed weapons. These are the weapons where, if you get the software and the files, you can print firearms at home without regulation, something I thought was supported only by organised crime, only by the worst elements of our society.

Just think that there is right now, on the Notice Paper in the Senate, a piece of legislation that would undo that says everything about who that crowd are trying to appeal to.