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After Port Arthur, Walter Mikac found a ‘superpower’. He’s sharing it with Izzy

Isabella was born five years after the tragedy in which Walter’s first two daughters and their mother were killed.

  • Amanda Hooton

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Police near the remote property in Wieambilla, Queensland, where two officers were fatally ambushed.

Labor pledges $160m for national guns register

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will announce the funding commitment on Saturday that will allow police to track gun possession.

  • Angus Thompson
NSW Premier Minns providing an update on the incident at Bondi Junction

Humanity rises above political sniping

Once again, In the face of catastrophe and in the worst circumstances, the best Australian characteristics shone through.

Bruce Lehrmann during the 2023 Spotlight interview.

Channel Seven’s grubby Spotlight ‘exclusive’ puts my beloved trade to shame

I can see no excuse for the kind of abhorrent behaviour we’ve heard about at Channel Seven in recent days.

  • Ray Martin
Recreational shooter with a Wedgetail pump-action rifle

Lethal, legal and locally made: Howard joins police push to restrict this gun nationwide

The pump-action Wedgetail MPR308 rifle is banned in NSW, Tasmania and the ACT but can be bought in every other state and territory.

  • Andrew Probyn and Eliza Edwards
The Special Operations Group was sent to the Seascape guesthouse, seen here after the Port Arthur murderer was captured following a short siege.

‘It is not factual’: Police sniper blasts publication of Port Arthur book

Former police sniper Craig Harwood has spoken out about the spiking of a controversial new book by an author who falsely claimed to have been at Port Arthur.

  • Jason Steger
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Hachetted said it had pulled Christophe Glasl’s memoir from sale.

Publisher pulls former cop’s memoir after police raise doubts over accuracy

The former member of the Victoria Police Special Operations Group said he was involved in the resolution of the Port Arthur massacre, a claim denied by police.

  • Jason Steger

I was close to one of the US gun massacres. ‘Thoughts and prayers’ did nothing

Can the worship of weapons be stopped in a country at war with itself?

  • Grace Tame
November 24, 1963: John F Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby as police look on.

The awful truth: Why Americans will continue to kill their children

If Australia had the same population as the US, at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.

  • John Silvester
The Port Arthur massacre remembrance cross.

From the Archives, 1997: Port Arthur remembered by those trying to forget

Twenty-five years ago, Port Arthur’s survivors took a difficult step away from grief when they mourned the deaths of 35 people a year ago.

  • Andrew Darby and Virginia Trioli

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