Port Arthur tragedy anniversary raises gun cap question

They were the first victims of the Port Arthur massacre. Their family has never forgotten

Seascape guesthouse owners Sally and David Martin were the first people murdered at Port Arthur in 1996. On the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, their granddaughter tells of how the family has refused to be defined by it.

Gun numbers on the rise 30 years on from Port Arthur massacre

This week marks 30 years since 35 people died and dozens more were injured in a shooting at Port Arthur, in southern Tasmania. The tragedy led to a mass buyback of more than half a million guns and other reforms to gun ownership. Australia hadn't seen a mass shooting anywhere near that scale, until the attack at Bondi in December last year, when 15 people were killed. That attack has renewed gun control debate and reforms across the country.

Port Arthur tragedy anniversary raises gun cap question

The 30th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre has renewed conversations around gun reform and whether caps on weapons should be implemented.

30th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre

Thirty years after the Port Arthur massacre, the terrible, indiscriminate cruelty of that day remains beyond understanding. Australia pauses today to remember the 35 people whose lives and futures were so pitilessly stolen from them just because they happened to be there.We think of everyone whose world was shattered by the loss of those who had been the bright centre of their lives, their love left desperately wrapped around an absence.