News live: PM warns Australia has more guns than at time of Port Arthur massacre; Erin Patterson’s appeal to start this week

Anthony Albanese invites all states to join gun buyback scheme launched in federal funding deal with NSW. Follow live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has just been speaking alongside the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, about the state’s gun buyback scheme agreed in response to the Bondi terror attack.The prime minister said:Australians are quite rightly proud of our gun laws but the fact is there are more guns in Australia today than there were at the time of dealing with the Port Arthur gun buyback that occurred under the Howard government.These arrangements are available to every state and territory, and this reform comes on top of previous reforms that have been undertaken by my government in partnership with states and territori