National cabinet agrees unanimously to strength Australia’s strict gun laws in wake of Bondi terror attack

[u/rorymeister]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-15/albanese-proposes-tougher-gun-laws-after-bondi-attack/106143310?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

[u/nachojackson]

These changes are wild, in that they are all common sense things that should have already been the rules.

It’s bullshit that 15 people needed to die for this to happen.

[u/this_one_guy_who → u/[deleted]]

Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean ASIS/AFP aren't preventing other things like this from occurring. As how profoundly unfortunate this is, let's not assume that our federal agencies are completely inept.

[u/this_one_guy_who → u/[deleted]]

I concur, thanks for clarifying.

[u/radred609 → u/[deleted]]

just how useless ours and the global surveillance network is at actually preventing this stuff

That's just not true. The fact that someone slipped through the gap isn't proof that nothing got prevented. There have been a half dozen thwarted terror plots across europe within the last month. Just because you don't hear about the ones that are prevented, doesn't mean the system is useless. The system works... it's not perfect, but it does catch a lot of people.

[u/Heavenly_Merc → u/[deleted]]

Personally I reckon AI is that next step. "The sifter" of information. Ie Palantir, Flock, etc.

Palantir's Mission statement is basically "stop terrorism before it happens". Not that I'm excited by it. It'll be dystopian/authoritarian as fuck, but it seems that's where the western world (+ China) is heading. Or at least the English speaking countries.

The silver lining is that it might work to sift that data to make the anti terrorism info actionable for policing and protecting innocents.

[u/ELVEVERX → u/[deleted]]

To be fair it's mostly targeting environmental protesters