Port Arthur: The shooting that changed Australia

According to France 24, it has been thirty years since the Port Arthur massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in Australia's history, an attack that fundamentally reshaped the country's relationship to firearms and drove gun policy for decades afterward. France 24 reports that the reforms are now under fresh scrutiny following the Bondi Beach attack in December twenty twenty-five, with Australians again asking whether those measures still go far enough. Mairead Dundas returns to Port Arthur to revisit that turning point.

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