GREAT Australian Party South Australian federal Senate candidate Gary Matthews and his wife Sheryl are recovering, uninjured but shaken, after a fire bomb attack on their home late on Wednesday night.
The attack came after a series of death threats were made against the couple including a rape threat against Mrs Matthews.
“My wife and I have been targeted and had death threats since just before the last Federal when I ran as a federal Senate candidate for South Australia,” Matthews said on a Facebook post at 3am on Thursday.
“One of the guys that threatened us for weeks said he was going to rape my wife and kill me in front of her.”
Gary said the same person ended up stabbing a police officer in the back at Sydney’s Central Station a few days after that.
The bizarre knife attack was recorded on camera and run by various media outlets.
The man was named as Mark Thompson and he was supposed to appear in a Sydney court again in June after being held in custody.
Cairns News has was not able to find any media reports of any further appearances.
Gary said police were “very confident” of finding suspects as they had taken DNA samples off a plastic jerry can the two attackers left behind as well as from several collector cars in a shed that were damaged.
“The police forensic team have been here for four hours going over everything. It is now 3am in the morning. My wife and I are not going to sleep tonight at all. Can’t even stay safe in our own home any more,” he said in the post.
The Matthews were going to bed when Sheryl saw a huge flash and explosion outside the kitchen window.
“I flew out the door to see two young guys running out through our fence and into a grey or light blue Commodore ute driving off at great speed.
“My wife and I struggled to get the fires put out before it could burn the rest of our house down.
“This time they could have killed us both if we had gone to bed earlier as were going to do.
“We got the fire out with our garden hose and a fire extinguisher, however, they have done around $50,000 damage to our collector’s cars.
“They left a red plastic jerry car under one of the vans which I managed to get out while still burning to stop it getting to the fuel tanks.”
Gary ran with Adelaide market operator Mark Aldridge on The Great Australian Party ticket for the Senate last year.
The duo finished 10th in the state’s Senate vote, gaining 12,698 or 1.6% of the vote, just under 700 votes ahead of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party.
Both Gary and Mark have large followings in Facebook.
do u have ccc camears in ya yard
Gooday Graeme the argument pursued through the senate for the entire period Culleton sat there was to expose the illegality of corporate government. There are numerous articles in CN about his attempted purge. Culleton did succeed in forcing the High Court to reinstate the real Queen in their process. The firebomb victim and GAP member went to the last election espousing this revelation and many others which exposed the Achilles heel of all government in Australia. Contact the victim on Facebook and ask. Editor
You didn’t answer my question. Where is your verification that the incident was directly related to exposing illegal Government activity?
Being a free site the number of subscriptions really is irrelevant.Editor
If you look up the Great Australia Party you will see that Renegade former Senator Rod Culleton who heads the GAP has just filed an action in the UK High Court against the illegality of the Australia Act 1987. It has been served on the WA Attorney general. Editor
I’m curious as to how you relate the cause of this event to “exposing illegality of the Government in Australia”
Did the perpetrator make statements confirming your accusation or is this just an assumption on your behalf to stir up subscriptions for your site?
people are JUST slowly finding out about the DEEP STATE of OZ.
My wife and I have been targeted for 15yr ++ by QLD State Gov ..their AGENCIES Etc
The problem is Media Including ABC…..MP…..Inc “Pauline Hanson” and her party don’t care a sh*t!!…….she is as bad as all the rest in MY experience.
This is a Closed shop criminal Country.
Thank God for Cairns news !!!
WOW! Gary via GAP has definitely rattled a few feathers & is obviously seen to be a threat to the ‘establishment’ or so it would seem!
Very dangerous these days to come from the ‘outside’ of the ‘establishment’ & try to make a difference in the way/s we’re being ruled-into-submission.
There would be many, many people (hopefully) now wanting to join GAP & fight back in a peaceful, civilised manner, but for how long must we put up with the controls (invalid laws) ‘they’ have placed upon us.
Best wishes to Gary & Sheryl. Stay strong, stay safe and don’t let the ‘ba$…d$’ get you down! And thanks to the Ed @cairnsnews for letting we non-users of f-book know about this attack.
Cheers 🙂
And they are supposed to sacrifice themselves for the “good of the collective” in order to preserve the illegitimate government in Australia’s monopoly on using weapons for self defense.
This is clear case when one should and needs to be able to keep and bear arms without the fear of being attacked by the armed agents of the very government that is supposed to protect the freedom of citizens.
For, is it not in Australia, the case that the People are attacked by both street thugs and government thugs?
Am glad that Gary & his wife are safe.
An important & timely reminder, of what we are up against, when exposing the traitors & CRIMINALS, who are destroying & ruining this once great country + nation.