Former NSW premier lashes Hanson's use of his Port Arthur remarks | DeborahSnow michaelkoziol nickbonyhady
Former NSW premier Barrie Unsworth says the al-Jazeera documentary has done Australia a great service.Then Labor premier of Victoria John Cain had rung him for advice and they decided to press then prime minister Bob Hawke to host a national summit in December 1987 to try and achieve a national ban on semi-automatics.
Mr Unsworth says he believed he lost the subsequent state election because of his gun laws, which were subsequently wound back. "There are a lot of questions that would be resolved by an inquiry. It may well be that there are good answers to them. There are assertions – I'm not asserting these myself – but there are people who say there was more than one shooter.
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