Independent MP Helen Haines’s condition has been downgraded to serious but stable after she lost both legs following an alleged attack near her electorate office in north-east Victoria on Monday afternoon.
The Alfred hospital in Melbourne provided an update on Haines’s condition on Saturday morning.
Hostility from constituents is not new for the state’s politicians, including its premiers. But the alleged attack on Helen Haines has sent a chill down the collective spine
On Monday night, Georgie Purcell shared a statement on social media in support of Helen Haines, who earlier that day had been allegedly attacked by a constituent in her regional Victorian electorate.
Purcell, a Victorian upper-house MP whose region partly overlaps with Haines’s federal electorate, wrote that the alleged attack had sent chills down her spine. Being a woman in politics, she said, had changed the way she moved through the world – where she parked her car, which route she took home, even whether she held public events at all.
A man accused of making threats while armed with “improvised nunchucks” at a Western Australian MP’s electorate office could have been holding a musical instrument, not a weapon, a court has been told.
John Lawrence Smart appeared on Thursday in the WA magistrates court, where his lawyer expressed concern for his mental health. He was not required to enter a plea.
Perth man charged with ‘being armed in a way that may cause fear’ – days after Helen Haines was allegedly attacked with 4WD outside her Victorian office
A man has been charged after allegedly threatening staff and wielding nunchucks at the electoral office of the Western Australian local government minister, Hannah Beazley.
The Perth incident came days after the federal independent MP Helen Haines was hospitalised with severe injuries following an alleged attack outside her electorate office in Wangaratta in Victoria on Monday.
Home and office safety a common concern in Australian federal police and Asio safety briefings with politicians following alleged attack on MP Helen Haines
Security agencies will review safety precautions for MPs’ homes and offices after numerous federal politicians told police and Asio in safety briefings that they were worried about widening threats after the alleged attack on Helen Haines.
The Labor government and politicians across the parliament are still considering how they will respond when they return to Canberra next week, with ideas being floated including a new committee on MPs’ safety, greater resources for police, and motions of condolence for Haines, who lost both her legs after Monday’s incident. Renewed calls from the crossbench for reforms to question time and the tone of debate in parliament are unlikely to be taken up by the major parties.
He’s six foot tall and full of muscle, but David Pocock’s real strength is often sounding like the most sensible, commonsense voice in the room.
At his first speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, he said he wasn’t launching a bid for prime minister – no matter how much some people might like the softly spoken senator to have more say in federal politics.
A 25% tax on gas exports, which he said could fund anything from boosting welfare to health reforms and aged care.
A 5% levy on datacentres to capture more benefits from the AI boom.
Transparency reforms to shine a light on lobbyists, secret meetings with politicians and vested interests.
The head of the Australian federal police has condemned a “febrile” political environment that has seen one person charged every week over the alleged threatening of MPs, as Victoria announces new steps to protect politicians.
But the AFP and Victoria police insist they had no intelligence to suggest 43-year-old Brendan Nugent would go on to allegedly drive a Toyota LandCruiser into the independent MP Helen Haines in a targeted attack.
AnthonyAlbanese has described the police interview on Tuesday with BrendanNugent as “extensive” but that the motivation of the alleged “violent” attack against Helen Haines is still unknown.
Certainly, it’s a reminder that the world is a more dangerous and divided place than it was a generation ago.
But I think that Australians do want to see their politicians be able to go about their business, to be able to get something from the back of their car, for goodness sake.
My side, every side included. We all have to recognise that politics has got more aggressive.
The particular impact on women in politics … [They] have got a different form of vilification and aggression towards them as well.
Brendan Nugent, from nearby Tarrawingee, was charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a federal official, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
SUV investe la parlamentare Helen Haines in Victoria, il premier Albanese: “Un attacco mirato”
La parlamentare federale indipendente Helen Haines è rimasta ferita in un incidente stradale davanti al suo ufficio nello stato di Victoria. Il premier Anthony Albanese parla di “un attacco mirato”, secondo quanto riferito dai giornali locali. Un SUV ha travolto Haines, provocandole gravi lesioni alla gamba.
Il giornalista di Melbourne Edward Godfrey ha spiegato che il dipendente di un salone da barba lì vicino ha raccontato al telefono che alcuni passanti avevano bloccato il guidatore del fuoristrada subito dopo l’impatto, scoprendo che l’uomo aveva un coltello a serramanico in tasca.
I familiari della donna confermano che l’episodio è avvenuto all’esterno della sua sede elettorale a Wangaratta, sempre nella regione di Victoria. La deputata, di 65 anni, è stata investita da una Toyota Landcruiser bianca verso le 15:35 ora locale.
Le forze dell’ordine hanno fatto sapere di essere al lavoro per capire se “si sia trattato di un atto intenzionale”, pur precisando di escludere una “minaccia in corso per la comunità”. Dal canto suo, Albanese ribadisce che “non si è trattato di un incidente” e che “sembra esserci stato un atto deliberato”, aggiungendo che le indagini vedono già il coinvolgimento della polizia antiterrorismo.
Helen Haines, 65, was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV outside her electoral district office mid afternoon in the city of Wangaratta in Victoria state, a police said.
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