{"id":186,"date":"2018-10-23T06:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-10-23T06:08:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:08:18","slug":"greens-say-corrupting-influence-of-the-gun-lobby-out-to-water-down-gun-control-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/23\/greens-say-corrupting-influence-of-the-gun-lobby-out-to-water-down-gun-control-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens say Corrupting Influence of the Gun Lobby Out to Water Down Gun Control Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Spokesperson for Gun Control, Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Greens spokesperson for Democracy, Senator Larissa Waters, have reacted to today&#8217;s reports that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-10-22\/new-era-gun-lobby-to-play-role-in-more-election-campaigns\/10395516\">gun lobby is trying to weaken Australia&#8217;s gun laws<\/a>\u00a0and that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2018\/oct\/21\/pro-gun-groups-used-ministerial-advisory-panel-to-lobby-against-tighter-laws\">pro-gun groups have used Ministerial Advisory Panels to lobby against greater gun controls.<\/a><br \/>\nAustralian Greens Spokesperson for Gun Control, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, said:<br \/>\n\u201cFederal and State Governments have dropped the ball on gun control. No Australian State or Territory has fully complied with the National Firearms Agreement which is absolutely appalling. We need to rekindle the kind of political courage we saw after the Port Arthur Massacre and push back against any move to weaken our gun laws.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should be tightening restrictions on guns, not entertaining militaristic fantasies or the weapons industry which simply want to sell more guns.<br \/>\n\u201cThe scourge of gun violence in the United States is directly related to the power and money the gun lobby has there. We don\u2019t need a corporate lobby pushing to roll back our gun laws,&#8221; she concluded.<br \/>\nGreens spokesperson for Democracy Senator Larissa Waters said:<br \/>\n\u201cA major overhaul of political donation laws in this country is long overdue, but any watering down of gun laws puts public safety at immediate risk making it even more important for the corrupting influence of the gun lobby to be eliminated from our democracy urgently.<br \/>\n\u201cFirearm interest groups have donated at least $500,000 to political parties including the LNP, Labor and The Katter Party. How can Australians have any faith that these political parties are acting in their best interests on gun laws rather than the interests of their donors and their corporate profits?<br \/>\n\u201cIf we have any hope of restoring trust in our democracy we need to ban donations from vested interests and end the revolving door between lobbyists and politicians and we cannot allow the power wielded by weapons manufacturers over political parties to go unchecked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Spokesperson for Gun Control, Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Greens spokesperson for Democracy, Senator Larissa Waters, have reacted to today&#8217;s reports that the\u00a0gun lobby is trying to weaken Australia&#8217;s gun laws\u00a0and that\u00a0pro-gun groups have used Ministerial Advisory Panels to lobby against greater gun controls. Australian Greens Spokesperson for Gun Control, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, said: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/23\/greens-say-corrupting-influence-of-the-gun-lobby-out-to-water-down-gun-control-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens say Corrupting Influence of the Gun Lobby Out to Water Down Gun Control Laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}