Gun Control is working in Australia

[boomer55]

So what have the Australian laws actually done for homicide and suicide rates? Howard cites a study (pdf) by Andrew Leigh of Australian National University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier University finding that the firearm homicide rate fell by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate fell by 65 percent, in the decade after the law was introduced, without a parallel increase in non-firearm homicides and suicides. That provides strong circumstantial evidence for the law’s effectiveness.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/02/did-gun-control-work-in-australia/

[RegieRocker]

1. B.S.

Straight from their government

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/341-360/tandi359/view%20paper.html

Also

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=17847

[chowder66]

2. Suicide by gun has decreased quite a bit per the article

and the homicide rates are a bit harder to discern based on how a study is done.

The pro and con arguments in that article acknowledge that the suicide rates have been signifigantly reduced.
The two articles you link to are discussing violent crimes, not suicides but the increased rates of assault, rape and less so, robbery. I suppose that depending on how a study is done, as in the gun homicide portion of the OP's study link, the rise in violent crimes could also be debated in the same vain.

It all depends on how and what you measure.

[HiPointDem]

3. There were 100 drive-by shootings in Sydney this year.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/100-shootings-and-counting-merrylands-tops-driveby-list-20120911-25psc.html