News Desk The Australia Institute – Cashing In On Fear In what can only be described as a cynical and disingenuous cash grab, The Australia ...
News Desk SIFA Industry Issues Brief – Q2 2025 Federal Government and National Issues National Firearms Register Update The National Firearms Register (NFR) continues to ...
News Desk Papalia’s Botched Gun Laws Collapse as Parliament Forces Review The WA Government has agreed to send its rushed and deeply flawed firearms laws to ...
News Desk National Firearms Register: Industry Update In 2023, the Federal Government announced it would work with states and territories to create ...
Media Releases Media Release: SIFA Welcomes Parliamentary Review of WA Firearms Laws The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has welcomed WA Parliament’s decision to refer Labor’s ...
News Desk Update on SA Firearm Permit Delays. Following our campaign to raise awareness of the current delay in processing South Australian firearm ...
News Desk SIFA Convenes Meeting of National Shooting Organisations The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) convened a pivotal meeting in Canberra on 14 ...
Media Releases Media Release: “Killing Small Business” – SA Police Backlog Chokes Industry The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has raised serious concerns about excessive delays in ...
News Desk WA Firearms Health Assessments Rejected by GPs: Labelled – “A Cautionary Tale for Other States” The centrepiece reform of the WA Government’s 2024 firearms legislation, the Firearm Authority Health Assessment ...
News Desk Permit delays threaten South Australian firearms industry The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has raised serious concerns about excessive delays in ...
News Desk Academic’s conflation of legal firearm ownership with gun crime is not so Bright. An academic has drawn the ire of law-abiding firearm owners recently in an attempt to ...
Media Releases Confusion and Concern Over NT Firearms “Self-Check” Requirement. Licensed shooters in the Top End are confused over an order issued by the NT ...
News Desk SIFA Industry Issues Brief – Q1 2025 Federal Government and National Issues SIFA Rejects Misleading Gun Control Australia Report Gun Control Australia ...
News Desk Tasmania Police’s Mental Health Proposals Slammed by Experts Tasmania’s draft firearms licence application, which includes a range of invasive, irrelevant, and counterproductive questions ...
Media Releases Clive Pugh Elected as SIFA Chair At the recent SIFA General Meeting held on 14 February 2025, Clive Pugh, Managing Director ...
News Desk SIFA’s Regulator Performance Survey Launches March 3rd. On March 3rd we will be launching the third annual regulator performance survey to industry. ...
News Desk Preventable Tragedies and Knee-jerk Gun Laws On the first of February, findings from an internal West Australian Police investigation into the ...
News Desk MEDIA RELEASE: SIFA SLAMS GUN CONTROL AUSTRALIA’S REPORT. Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) CEO James Walsh has called out the latest report ...
News Desk A Positive Result for Interstate Hunters Visiting Tasmania. SIFA is pleased to share the news that the Tasmanian Government has rectified an issue ...
News Desk SIFA Calls for Urgent Action on Interstate Hunter Licensing Exemption in Tasmania The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has written to Tasmanian Minister for Police, Felix ...
News Desk 2024 SIFA End of Year Wrap As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the milestones and achievements ...
News Desk SIFA Pushes Back on Tasmania’s Proposed Antique Firearms Laws The ongoing issue of Antique Firearm Law Reform in Tasmania is slowly coming to a ...
News Desk SIFA Raises Concerns Over Draft Tasmanian Firearms Licence Application Form The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) has raised concerns about the proposed Tasmanian Firearms ...
News Desk Pollies and the Press Blast Off in Annual Shooting Competition. Federal Politicians pitted their shooting skills against the Press in Queanbeyan, NSW in a round ...
News Desk Leaders of the Australian Shooting Industry The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) was established in 2014 and serves as the ...
News Desk SIFA Welcomes Keith Drain as Manager, Communications and Policy. The Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia welcomes Keith Drain to the team as Manager, Communications ...
News Desk SIFA confirms no changes to powder storage limits in NSW regulation remake Since July 2021, SIFA has been engaged with SafeWork NSW on remaking the NSW Explosive ...
News Desk Tasmania commits to overhaul of antique firearms laws. In January this year, the Tasmanian police commissioner cancelled the long-standing exemption no.4, that allowed ...
News Desk Northern Territory’s restriction on interstate license holders lifted. In January this year, the Firearms Policy and Recording Unit (FPRU) of NT Police advised ...
News Desk SIFA Insight 2024 Regulator Performance Survey highlights major issues facing the Australian shooting industry. SIFA’s annual regulator performance survey has highlighted that the Australian shooting industry is still being ...