FED: Govt withholding $9 million in Vic gun money: Howard

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-1999
FED: Govt withholding $9 million in Vic gun money: Howard

Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD says his government has withheld $9 million worth of gun buyback
compensation from Victoria because the state failed to comply with the agreement on uniform
gun laws.

He's told Radio 3AW that Victoria has diverged in one or two respects from the national gun
agreement but the money will be made available if the state gets back into …