The haunting of Port Arthur: MPs launch new push on gun laws

Andrew Leigh has little difficulty summoning a haunting argument for gun control in Australia.

As a law student at the University of Sydney in the mid-1990s, he gained experience as a summer clerk with the law firm Minter Ellison.

There, his mentor was a young lawyer named Zoe Hall.

In late April, 1996, Ms Hall and her boyfriend Glenn Pears took a holiday to Tasmania, and fatefully, they travelled to Port Arthur.

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