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Both commissioners will stay in their roles while Goldsmith considers an appeal.

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More than 100 staff at two major Australian book retailers will walk off the job tomorrow for a days-long strike over the busy Christmas period.

Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books employees represented by the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) will begin a five-day strike from tomorrow until Wednesday, December 24.

The strike will affect all Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books bookstores.

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9news.com.au understands the retailers will attempt to staff the stores during the strike with non-union staff and new hires.

"We know that the shareholders are trying to break the strike but there will be over 100 workers on strike," RAFFWU secretary Loukas Kakogiannis told 9news.com.au.

RAFFWU members are bargaining for a new agreement that would boost wages and improve conditions.

They have been negotiating with the Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books for months in a bid to replace the expired, 13-year-old deal they're currently on.

Under that agreement, many booksellers aren't paid penalty rates on evenings and Saturdays and are stuck on casualised part-time work with no casual loading.

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"We can't keep going under this old agreement when we're juggling multiple jobs just to survive and living with constant financial stress," RAFFWU delegate Ally Bodnaruk said in a statement.

"Passion for books doesn't pay the rent. We want to secure jobs, fair treatment and to be paid a living wage."

Despite six bargaining meetings over three months, a new agreement has not been reached.

RAFFWU members have already instituted a ban on restocking shelves and receiving deliveries in response to the failed negotiations.

Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books reacted by issuing workers with unilateral wage cuts of 37.77 per cent for participating in the bans, per the RAFFWU.

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"These workers aren't asking for the world, they want job security, a living wage with penalty rates, and protections against unfair treatment," Kakogiannis said.

"These are basic rights that all workers deserve."

He called on Harry Hartog and Berkelouw Books to "stop being recalcitrant" and come to the table with a fair offer.

Harry Hartog operates 15 stores across the ACT, NSW, Queensland and South Australia.

Berkelouw Books operates out of fewer than 10 locations in NSW and Queensland.

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Australia's largest gun buyback scheme since the aftermath of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre will be launched in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the scheme this morning, saying it is expected to lead to the seizure and destruction of hundreds of thousands of "surplus, newly banned and illegal" firearms.

"The terrible events at Bondi show we need to get more guns off our streets," he said.

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"We know that one of these terrorists held a firearm licence and had six guns, in spite of living in the middle of Sydney's suburbs there at Bonnyrigg.

"There's no reason why someone in that situation needed that many guns.

"There are now more than 4 million firearms in Australia – more than at the time of the Port Arthur massacre nearly 30 years ago."

The cost of the buyback will be evenly split between the federal and state governments.

As in 1996, states will be responsible for collecting the guns, while the Australian Federal Police will be tasked with destroying them.

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The buyback will help enforce the changes to firearm control laws agreed to by national cabinet earlier this week, which will include limiting the number of weapons one person can own, bringing forward the National Firearms Register, and restricting gun licences to Australian citizens.

That overhaul comes after one of the shooters, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, legally owned six long-arm firearms, some of which were used to carry out Sunday's massacre.

He was granted an AB gun licence in NSW in 2023, despite his son having been investigated – and cleared – by ASIO over potential extremist links years earlier.

Any changes to federal laws are unlikely to face any trouble getting through parliament, with Labor holding a comfortable majority in the lower house and needing only the support of the Greens to get the assent of the Senate.

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Senior Coalition figures, though, have signalled their opposition to changes to gun laws, with Nationals leader David Littleproud labelling them a "cheap political smokescreen".

However, Albanese said Australians understood the need for gun controls to be modernised.

"In 1996, the then-Howard government did the right thing: intervened to have a scheme which Australians have been rightly proud of," he said.

"We need to go further… if a bloke in Bonnyrigg needs six high-powered rifles and is able to get them under existing licensing schemes, then there's something wrong.

"I think Australians can see that."

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NSW details stronger gun laws

Having already promised to recall parliament before Christmas to pass stronger state gun laws, NSW Premier Chris Minns and Police Minister Yasmin Catley detailed exactly what those controls will include.

Licensed residents will be limited to owning four guns each, although there will be some exceptions for farmers, other primary producers, and sporting shooters.

Category A and B licences will now only cover magazines with a capacity of 5-10 rounds, while some guns will be upgraded so they can only be obtained under a category C licence.

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"Will reclassify straight, pull, pump-action, button, lever release firearms into category C – limiting their access primarily to farmers, agriculture, and primary producers," Minns said.

The state will also enforce more frequent licence renewals and stronger identity checks.

"People need to remember: owning a gun is a privilege, it is not a right," Catley said.

"That privilege must never, ever outweigh community safety.

"These reforms ensure there is no ambiguity when it comes to public safety.

"They strengthen oversight, reduce the availability of high-risk firearms, and give the police the tools that they need to intervene as early as possible."

The new legislation will be introduced to NSW parliament on Monday.

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