No it isn't. I'm a gun owner myself - one of somewhere around a million Australian gun owners owning millions of guns between us.
In 2008, gun owners in Australia were forced by law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms which were destroyed by their own Government.
No, they weren't. Your information is seriously flawed.
(It wasn't 2008 - it was 1998 - and most of the guns were voluntarily sold to the government in a buyback - people were not forced to surrender them in most cases. They chose to for a fair cash price).
There's a lot of misinformation on the web about the situation in Australia.
I stand corrected, then.
HST, are you allowed to carry?
PS If there is a lot of misinformation about guns in Australia, where would one go to get the real scoop?
If I could take my guns and ammo to Australia, I might seriously consider moving there.
I had seven Australian liberty visits cancelled by when I was on active duty. I am under the impression that Australia is a wonderful place to live and work.