From the Archives, 1996: The Port Arthur massacre brisbanetimes.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brisbanetimes.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Port Arthur 25 years on: A dark pain that never leaves For those caught up in the Port Arthur massacre, time has still not healed the emotional scars of that horrific day.
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Subscriber only Tony Rundle vividly recalls flying towards Hobart on that autumn day in 1996, a sick sense of foreboding hanging over him. The then-premier of Tasmania had been preparing to drive from his farm outside Devonport in the state s north-west to the capital ready for the week s Parliamentary sitting. It was Sunday, April 28. A phone call came through about 2.30pm from my chief of staff saying there were reports of an incident at Port Arthur, Rundle, now aged 82, told News Corp.
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Exclusive: Australia still does not have a national firearms register, 25 years after the states and territories signed up to it. As the 25-year anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre approaches, a News Corp investigation has revealed the National Firearms Agreement, signed in the days following the massacre, is riddled with loopholes. A number of changes agreed by the states and territories in response to the massacre, in which 35 people were killed and 20 injured by a lone gunman at Port Arthur in Tasmania, have never been implemented. And some laws have since been watered-down as the states and territories caved in to demands from pro-gun lobbyists.
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