Something Big
The story of Australia’s conservative Prime Minister John Howard’s greatest battle
Just 6 weeks into his term, he must deal with the largest massacre in modern urban history ’til that point in time at Port Arthur Tasmania – a massacre that killed 35 people.
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He chose to face it head on and outlandishly proposes a sweeping ban on automatic and semi automatic weapons and a national gun buy back costing millions – risking a political career he had been crafting for decades, and his coalition government ripping itself apart.