Tuesday, 3 March 2026

 Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) presented a petition bearing 25,552 signatures:

The petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that proposed changes to gun legislation has been a knee-jerk reaction to a terrorist event in New South Wales. The current gun legislation is already sufficient and was not used to prevent this tragedy due to the gunmen already being on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s watch list. The proposed changes will only further penalise our legally licensed firearm owners and will not in any way stop terrorist attacks in the near future.

The petitioners therefore request that the Legislative Council call on the Government to halt the proposed changes to gun legislation and push for tougher measures against non-Australian citizens who do not have the same opinion as Australian citizens and do not want to participate in the country’s values and freedoms.

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL: As this is a petition qualifying for debate under standing order 11.03(10), I give notice that I intend to move ‘That the petition be taken into consideration’ on Wednesday next sitting week.