any more news on this, as a west australian currently arguing with the police licensing service, this interests me quite a lot. i'm going through the State Administrative Tribunal at the moment to get a gun that i had to order in and pay for just to apply for the license. now i had a feeling that they were trying to put me off till some law change came through, the only light on the horizon is that the SAT seem to be a little negative toward the lack of justification by the police. The other scary thing is that i probably will not see any compensation, and will probably struggle to sell the firearm. it upsets me that i have so much trouble with a simple single shot bolt action rifle, yet am allowed to get a pump action 30 06 with little problem.