The Hon. John Ruddick
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Well, what happened after Bondi is, you know, we actually proposed a bill.
that would prevent, in the immediate aftermath of a crisis, to prevent the Parliament passing a law for three months.
What we call a cooling off period.
That's right.
And the anti-speech laws and the anti-gun laws.
Now, if there's a three-month pause where you just constitutionally can't make a law, what are we going to do in that three months after a big tragedy?
We're going to debate about what is the best legal response.
And maybe the answer to that will be no legal response.
But we can have a serious debate.
But what happens after an event like Bondi, which something of that magnitude only happens once every 20, 30 years, but as soon as it happens...
And the politicians go and do a press conference, and you've got 20, 30 young journalists there, most of them female, and they're saying, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
And the Premier's, oh, we're looking at taking tough action.
We're looking at taking tough action.
What are you going to do, Mr. Premier?
What are you going to do?
So he's got to look like he's doing something.
He says, oh, we're going to recall Parliament.
We're going to bring in really tough new laws.
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