{"id":426854,"date":"2026-01-21T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426854\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:25:12","slug":"national-gun-buyback-doesnt-address-antisemitism-and-hatred-queensland-premier-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426854\/","title":{"rendered":"National gun buyback doesn’t address antisemitism and hatred, Queensland premier says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has doubled down on the state’s refusal to participate in a national gun buyback scheme after the prime minister called on him to justify his position.<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli told the media on Wednesday morning that a gun buyback “doesn’t address antisemitism and hate and it doesn’t focus on keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists and criminals”.<\/p>\n

Earlier that morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had said that Mr Crisafulli’s position wasn’t “in the interests of Queenslanders or the nation”.<\/p>\n

In a late-night sitting on Tuesday evening in Canberra, the federal government passed new laws<\/a> targeting hate groups and paved the way for the national gun buyback scheme.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A sample of some of the guns returned during Western Australia’s state buybacks in recent years. (ABC News: Keane Bourke)<\/p>\n

The buyback, and stricter firearm controls, are part of legislation currently being debated in federal parliament, with the government separating the changes from the hate speech reforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prime minister announced his intention to tighten gun laws after the Bondi beach attack on 14 December, in which two attackers killed 15 people at Hanukkah celebrations.<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli said new state legislation would be introduced in the first sitting of the Queensland parliament in February, which would focus on the “cause of the issue”.<\/p>\n

“Our response is going to focus on the heart of the issue,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Antisemitism, hatred and guns in the hands of terrorists and criminals.”<\/p>\n

The premier said he had asked state Attorney-General Deb Frecklington and Police Minister Dan Purdie to work on the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n

“I want Queenslanders to know that this is being dealt with in a very calm and considered way,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Albanese,<\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese said he had a “constructive” discussion with the Queensland premier, but respectfully disagreed with his position. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Queensland has the second-highest rate of gun ownership in the country.<\/p>\n

Asked how a national gun buyback scheme could be effective without Queensland’s participation, the prime minister said that was a question for Queensland.<\/p>\n

“I disagree with his position, respectfully, and I don’t think it’s in the interest of Queenslanders or the nation to not have national uniform laws,” Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n

He added that he met with Premier Crisafulli last week and had a “constructive” discussion about the legislation.<\/p>\n

Further asked whether the federal government would help states pay to administer the national gun buyback scheme Mr Albanese said that was a matter for Queensland.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing unusual about states saying that they want everyone else to pay but themselves for things \u2026 I encourage states and territories to support this,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Crisafulli said Queenslanders would see a “big contrast to what they’ve witnessed in Canberra”.<\/p>\n

“I want Queenslanders to know that this is being dealt with in a very calm and considered way,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has doubled down on the state’s refusal to participate in a national gun buyback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[192749,221788,92792,224046,43,44,224045,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-426854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bondi-attack","tag-gun-buyback","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-licences","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-queensland-gun-control","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}