New offences targeting 3D-printed "ghost" guns are set to be introduced as the prime minister continues to resist calls for a national royal commission into the Bondi terror attack.
Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke revealed work is under way on gun reform following the mass shooting that left 15 victims dead at a Hanukkah celebration.
The legislative package, flagged by the government last week, will also include a firearms buyback scheme similar to one implemented following the Port Arthur massacre, as well as work on intelligence sharing, import controls and tightening the application process.
"The Hate Crimes Database and the National Firearms Register are both being accelerated to be able to provide the best possible information both to the public generally and to the authorities that issue gun licences," Mr Burke told reporters on Tuesday.
The commonwealth reforms will complement work already being done by the states to reduce the number of weapons and magazines licence holders can own.
Mr Albanese said while there were legitimate purposes for Australians to have guns, there was no reason for people like the alleged gunmen to own six long-arm weapons in suburban Sydney.
A survey by pollster Resolve, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, found the vast majority of Australians supported the measures, with three-quarters in favour of tougher gun laws.
Mr Burke said tightening up gun laws dealt with the method of the attack, but the government was also working on tackling the motivation of Islamic State-inspired anti-Semitism with new hate speech laws and the outlawing of extremist organisations that incite hatred.
"Organisations like Hizb ut-Tahrir and the neo-Nazis, for a generation, have managed to keep themselves just on the legal side of Australian law, but never on the side of the Australian community," he said.
"The thresholds will be lowered to allow them to be listed organisations under a new regime, so that even if you don't satisfy the definition of terrorism, you can still be listed as an organisation which is not able to operate in Australia."
Mr Albanese continued to fend off demands from the opposition and Jewish community leaders for a royal commission into the attack.
He has instead launched a more limited review of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies and backed a NSW inquiry, which he said the Commonwealth would fully comply with.
"I just note that there was no royal commission called by the Howard government after Port Arthur. There was no royal commission called by the Abbott government after the Lindt siege," the prime minister said.
"We provided support on both those occasions as the opposition, and I was a part of that opposition. We provided support for national unity at that time."
Hopes of a unified, bipartisan response to the attack appear dead and buried.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has laid the blame for the massacre squarely at the feet of the prime minister, accusing him of failing to address Jewish concerns about anti-Semitism following the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas in Israel.
On Monday, she fired an extraordinary broadside at Foreign Minister Penny Wong after the senior Labor frontbencher said she wanted to see Australians take the temperature down following the Bondi terror attack.
"I haven’t seen Penny Wong shed a single tear," Ms Ley said.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen called it a "disgusting element of an increasingly partisan politics in the wake of a national crisis".
Mr Albanese said he regretted the politicisation of the issue.
"This is a time where the nation needs to come together in unity and with that sense of purpose," he said.
"This is not a time for people to look for political product differentiation for the sake of it."
