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In December last year, in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, Anthony Albanese promised the biggest national gun buyback since Port Arthur.

He wanted the states and territories to agree to new gun laws by March and legislate them by July.

But that first deadline has passed and the national response is fracturing.

Queensland and the Northern Territory are refusing the buyback.

Tasmania is rejecting a cap on the number of firearms a person can own.

and a national register is not expected to be running until 2028.

The Royal Commission into Anti-Semitism has also weighed in, saying Australia should waste no time implementing the buyback.

So today, 30 years after Port Arthur, we're returning to our January episode, when Nicole Johnston speaks with Ebony Bennett from the Australia Institute, on why Australia has more guns than ever, and why reform is still so difficult.

It's Sunday, May 3.

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The Albanese government has moved quickly on the Royal Commission into antisemitism, accepting all of the recommendations from its first report before public hearings begin.

It comes at a volatile moment in national politics after the issue was seized on by the opposition in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.