Royal commission recommends national firearms agreement and buyback scheme

to ensure that lessons [have been] learned from the 14th of December, to ensure all agencies continue to improve" NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said on Thursday."We acknowledge the recommendations we have, and will continue to work with the royal commissioner and we are committed to implementing any recommendations."The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies encouraged those affected to provide submissions to the royal commission."Australia must remain a country where no community lives in fear because of who they are That principle must guide the work ahead," the board's president, David Ossip, said.Alex Ryvchin from the Executive Council of Australia Jewry said responsibility was now with leaders to act appropriately on the interim recommendations and listen to the coming submissions."If those recommendations are embraced by the government, which they said they will adopt them, to better cooperation between agencies, better preparedness and planning, better sharing of information and hopefully that will lead to greater safety," he told ABC News Channel.The inquiry's first round of public hearings will begin next week, with people with lived experience of antisemitism in Australia expected to be called to give evidence.Commissioner Bell said some sessions would be closed to the public, with hearings to continue over the next five months.More than 3,500 submissions have already been made to the commission.Further hearing dates have yet to be announced, with Commissioner Bell to deliver her final report before the first anniversary of the terror attack.Commissioner Bell can make recommendations at any time between now and the end of the year based on information that comes up in the course of the royal commission's work.