| 来源类型 | Research;
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| Point blank: Political strategies of Australia's gun lobby |
| Bill Browne
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| 发表日期 | 2019-03-27
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | The Australian public supports stronger gun control and stricter restrictions and laws on firearms. Despite this, there is a real danger of our firearm laws being watered down. Successive inquiries have found that no state or territory has ever fully complied with the National Firearms Agreement.The public will on firearms is being circumvented because firearms interest groups have made a concerted effort to undermine these laws and loosen state-... |
| 摘要 | The Australian public supports stronger gun control and stricter restrictions and laws on firearms. Despite this, there is a real danger of our firearm laws being watered down. Successive inquiries have found that no state or territory has ever fully complied with the National Firearms Agreement.
The public will on firearms is being circumvented because firearms interest groups have made a concerted effort to undermine these laws and loosen state-level gun controls. These groups include firearms suppliers and their peak bodies, members’ associations like shooting and hunting clubs, and gun advocates who operate more informally. Either operating independently or together, these organisations have made significant political donations, run campaigns to influence voters and encouraged the election of pro-gun crossbenchers.
The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA), the peak body for Australia’s five largest firearms suppliers, spends roughly the same amount of money, again as a share of population, on political campaigning as the National Rifle Association (the NRA) does in the United States.
The Australian gun lobby runs political campaigns and lobbies politicians and journalists, but it attracts little attention in Australia because it keeps its operations low key. Gun lobby political advertising in recent years has mostly avoided mentioning firearms or gun control at all.
Australians are probably more familiar with the NRA than Australia’s equivalents, even though relative to population Australia’s gun lobby is of a similar size and funding to the NRA. This report provides an account of the political strategies of the gun lobby. |
| 特色分类 | 2019
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| 主题 | Government and Accountability
; Society
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| 标签 | firearms
; National Firearms Agreement
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| URL | http://www.tai.org.au/content/point-blank-political-strategies-australias-gun-lobby
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| 来源智库 | The Australia Institute (Australia)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/116035
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Bill Browne. Point blank: Political strategies of Australia's gun lobby. 2019.
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