Glynn Greensmith

Dr Glynn Greensmith is a senior lecturer in journalism at Curtin University and the author of Mass Shootings, Media and Motive: How changing coverage can save lives.

A memorial ceremony at Tasmania’s Port Arthur, where 35 people were murdered in 1996.

Opinion
Port Arthur massacre

We have disrupted the script used by mass killers before. Today, that matters more than ever

There are more guns in Australia now than at the time of the Port Arthur massacre. Mass murder has returned to this country. And we are losing the legacy of the response to that day 30 years ago.