The confiscation of 1996-1997 resulted in destruction of semiauto longarms of all kinds, and all pump action shotguns. There were a very few exceptionst for a few licenced to pest control companies, and a few farmers who jumped through hoops to keep them for serious pest control problems. So serious indeed were the restrictions that I know of a farm with pest control problems being acquired and farmed specifically to retain the family auto shotgun (but I add the owner really farms it, its not just a prop).

No bolt action rifles were confiscated though many were surrendered and destroyed (for no compensation) rather than go through the nonsense to license them.

The big change in Queensland and Tasmania was that the owners had to get licenses for them and permits to acquire each additional one, based on genuine reasons and genuine need criteria. For Western Australians, the laws were little different to before except we lost our 10/22s and Remington 1100s.

Hate laws, founded in moral hypocrisy and contempt for decent people IMO.