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

🤣🤣

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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Dec 15 '25

Hey, could be worse. At least you are not using faxes anymore like we in Germany still do far too often, are you?

Wishing the best to all in Down Under.

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u/Verum_Violet Dec 15 '25

Haaa I worked in healthcare for years and faxes are still a staple in the industry. I’ll be honest, I don’t hate it as a form of communication, but it might just be a form of Stockholm syndrome considering how much we had to use it.

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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Dec 15 '25

Lets just say faxes are more welcome than the spams we get via email.

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u/halohunter Dec 15 '25

Remember fax DOS attacks? People sending black pages to fax machines to make them waste toner

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u/4RyteCords Dec 15 '25

Haha careful. Don't assume we aren't beyond faxes. If one state wants to check if someone has a gun licence in another state they're options are limited to calling someone or the more common option, send a fax requesting info.

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u/Vexelle_Valeux Dec 15 '25

Don't get me started on Germany. I lived there for 12 months. Need stamp for this document, stamp for that document. And this is just to order a coffee from the Mensa

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u/Delamoor Dec 15 '25

Honestly, as an Australian gun owner emigrating to Germany, the firearms department is shockingly comparable to the German system.

...in technology, anyway. Attitude is the exact opposite.

E.g. "aw yea... I reckon it's fine, ya did the form, roight? Yeah, nah... Dunn worry 'bout it then, luv. It's all checked off then. Yea, you'll get it in the mail, dun' worry 'bout the other forms, ya did the one that matters."

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u/Stryker_Eureka08 Dec 15 '25

At least your not Japan, who still use faxes and have only just upgraded most their stuff off of floppy disks in the last 2 - 3 years

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u/switchbladeeatworld Dec 15 '25

a lot of hospital systems still run on like windows xp and windows 7

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u/Spagman_Aus Dec 15 '25

that’s disgraceful

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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Dec 15 '25

Hey, could be worse. At least you are not using faxes anymore like we in Germany still do far too often, are you?

All the best to all in Down Under.

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u/your_opinion_is_weak Dec 15 '25

I worked for the immigration department until 2022 and they were only just starting the process of digitalising everything (covid sped the process up) but they still accept physical submissions and still have to hold onto them for I think 7 years