Australia-wide knife crackdown gets sharper

NATIONALIZED BLACK LAWS AREA:

Victoria:

* After an increase in high -profile stabbing in shopping malls, including a security guard stabbed outside a Melbourne Woolworths, a temporary prohibition was established in May for the sale of the machete in the state.

* Penalties are fined more than $ 45,000 to be sentenced to one year imprisonment and to sell knives to children under 18 years of age.

NSW:

* In December 2024, the government imposed a series of new laws with a sharp knife sale to children under the age of 16, carrying a knife in a public place or up to four years in prison.

* Six months ago, police powers, sports venues, shopping centers and public transportation vehicles, including public areas without any orders or scanned

* A maximum of four years of imprisonment between penalties for various knife crimes and a fine of up to $ 11,000

Queensland:

* Jack’s law was passed in 2023 in honor of 17 -year -old Jack Beasley, who was deadly stabbed in the knife attack in 2019.

* It gives the police strength to use hand -held metal detectors to seize secret weapons in public places

Western Australia:

* The state received new laws in December 2024 for the police to scan people in certain entertainment zones.

* Not sleeping may cause a fine for 12,000 dollars or behind bars.

* The fine was imprisoned for 36,000 dollars and three years in prison for having a weapon containing everything from knives and paks to scythers and axes.

Northern Region:

* The region introduced laws circulating in 16 regions in 2023

* In March 2023, a 20 -year -old bottle shop worker in the workplace after the death of a knife crime also brought the strategy.

TAĞMANYA:

* Reid’s law was accepted in April to stop people carrying fiskle knives and machete in order to cause fear and threaten community safety

* The draft name was named after Reid Ludwig, a deadly father who was stabbed at a gas station in the hands of an armed young man.

* At the same time, the dangerous sharp weapons expand the authority to call and stop for police officers by further a fine of three years or $ 20,000.

South Australia:

* SA took action to ban the machete and swords, which accused of producing, selling, distributing, supplying or having a maximum of $ 20,000 or two years in prison.

* The government also increased the age of the purchase of dangerous knives from 16 to 18 and expanded the laws to keep knives and aggressive weapons in public places to include child care centers, preschool, universities and TAFE SA campuses and worship.