"We think it's needed before Christmas, to keep our residents safe," said New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, during a press conference on Wednesday.
Members of both chambers will meet on December 22 and 23.
According to the Prime Minister, a new bill will, among other things, contain restrictions on how many weapons an individual may own.
In Australia, an individual with a gun license owns an average of 4.3 firearms, but in most states there is no cap on how many licensed individuals can own, according to the Australian gun safety alliance .
Chris Minns hopes for the strictest laws in the country when it comes to how many guns a person is allowed to own.
Western Australia (state) leads the nation with five. But I think that's too many, he says.
The fact that the new bills are being drafted so quickly after the terrorist attack is in itself nothing new.
Australia introduced tougher gun laws 12 days after a mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996, in which 35 people were shot dead. The new strict law has led to a sharp drop in the number of murders and suicides with firearms in the country – between 1996 and 2016, the number of murders with firearms fell by 72 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In 2017, a gun amnesty was carried out in the country in which 50,000 firearms were collected.
