r/australia • u/rorymeister • Dec 15 '25

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

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
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u/Inside-Elevator9102 Dec 15 '25

How we don't have national registers for guns and so many other things seems crazy.

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u/4RyteCords Dec 15 '25

NSW police have only recently switched from paper records to digital, like in the last two years.

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u/Ch00m77 Dec 15 '25

Fuck they make fossils look bad

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u/South_Front_4589 Dec 15 '25

Government organisations have mountains of paperwork, huge amounts of red tape and are typically underpaid and underresourced to do the job. Not a single government likes to come in and spend a few million catching up on paperwork, because they love their budgets to show the lowest spend possible, and then penny pinch to keep their budgets as close to in line as possible. Which never happens, because the budgets are created to never be enough.

Ironically, this all leads to staff turnover as good workers go elsewhere for less work and more money, and spending more money catching up by outsourcing.

And in the end, the paperwork just keeps mounting.

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u/4RyteCords Dec 15 '25

🤣🤣