Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control
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Simon Chapman
Pluto Press, $A24.95, pp 218
ISBN 1 86403 037 2
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On Sunday 28 April 1996, 23 year old Martin Bryant entered a tourist complex 100 km south of Hobart, Tasmania, and shot dead 35 people, wounding 18 others. The media described it as “the worst massacre by a single gunman in Australian history,” although Chapman points out on page 1 that the wholesale slaughter of aborigines in the 19th century often involved far higher individual tallies.
Before this watershed tragedy, Australia's eight states and …
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