The ANAO could assess the delivery of the National Firearms Register (NFR) Program. On 1 July 2024, the NFR Program commenced. This followed National Cabinet’s agreement on 6 December 2023 to deliver the most significant firearms reforms in Australia in 30 years (the NFR delivers on an outstanding reform from the 1996 Port Arthur response). The NFR is to be a federated operating model to achieve near real-time tracking of registered firearms and licence holders. Enabled by policy and legislative change, NFR is to collect and share information from Commonwealth, state and territory firearms registers, portals and management systems. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) is responsible for leading the national program to establish the NFR. The ACIC is to upgrade existing national systems to enable the near real-time sharing of firearms and licence holder information; to include data from existing Home Affairs, Australian Border Force and Defence systems to enable tracing of firearms imports and exports.