Category Archives: gun control

How the sale of Australian police guns threatens public health in the USA

Should Australia be contributing to the gun toll in the USA? It’s a timely question for the Defence Export Control Office in the Department of Defence in Canberra, says Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Alpers, of GunPolicy.org at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Philip Alpers writes: If Canberra follows precedent, around 10,000 [...]

Some tips for media covering Arizona shooting (& also Australian floods)

In the wake of the recent shooting in Arizona, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma in the US has put together some resources for journalists and news managers covering the shooting. They may be of local interest – to the media’s audiences as well as to its own. Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg and Bruce Shapiro, [...]