By George Christensen
Political violence must be condemned. It must also be understood. Asking why people threaten politicians does not excuse the threats, any more than investigating the causes of crime excuses criminals.
The latest reported total number of threats against public office holders rose from 951 to 1,067, an increase of 116, or 12.2 percent. These figures encompass reports of harassment, nuisance, offensive behaviour and threats. They are not just a tally of physical attacks. Nonetheless, the longer-term increase is substantial: the AFP reported 555 incidents in 2021–22, compared with 1,067 in 2025–26. That is an increase of 512, a near doubling, in just four years.
That demands a serious explanation. What has happened to the relationship between Australians and their political representatives and government officials?
The AFP’s own threat assessment identifies economic pressures, including inflation, interest rates and living costs, among factors capable of driving threatening behaviour. Are Australians becoming increasingly hostile because they believe politicians ignore their problems? Has trust deteriorated because people feel that decisions affecting their homes, livelihoods and communities are imposed without meaningful consent?
One X commentator identifying as an Indi local described the alleged attack on Haines as horrifying, but outlined how local farmers confronting solar, wind, battery and transmission developments felt abandoned by their representative. That comment doesn’t establish the driver’s motive, but it does raise a legitimate question: do affected Australians believe their representatives are listening and delivering results?
People can condemn violence while demanding answers about land, livelihoods and government decisions. Peaceful grievances do not become illegitimate because somebody commits a dreadful act.
Nor should conservatives accept collective blame for the alleged Haines attack, as left-wing agitators online and commentators in the mainstream media have already begun to ascribe. Even Albanese and other politicians are dog-whistling this line when they talk about lowering the temperature of political debate and the like.
Anyone proposing to blame One Nation or ardent conservatives in general for this incident is engaging in dangerous rhetoric themselves: they are trying to criminalise an entire political movement. The voting patterns and concerns of the alleged attacker do not make any political party or movement guilty of any offence, otherwise, by the same standards, all Muslims would stand condemned by the actions of one Islamist terrorist.
What of heated political rhetoric, though?
Well, at Queensland Labor’s conference on 30 August, Albanese described hard-right populists as peddling politics that was “dangerous, divisive, and downright dishonest”, before discussing One Nation. The following day, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland associated elements of One Nation with extremist and neo-Nazi views. As a proponent of free speech, I have no qualms with politicians using tough language to criticise their opponents, but their own language must also be examined when they demand that everyone else lower the temperature.
And the insinuation that right-wingers are the sole purveyors of violence in Australia is demonstrably false. I have personal experience of political intimidation from the Left.
On the Sunday after the 2022 federal election, I went to Brisbane’s Breakfast Creek Hotel with then One Nation state MP Stephen Andrew. A horde of unionists were there celebrating Albanese’s victory. While we were peacefully enjoying XXXX Bitter off the wood keg in the front bar, an angry unionist confronted me and wanted a fight. The harassment became serious enough that security had to be called.
Stephen and I moved to the restaurant area at the back. Several more angry unionists confronted us there, also wanting a fight. And why? Because of our conservative politics. Eventually, I left the pub earlier than I had planned in order to avoid an altercation.
Years earlier, at a town hall meeting in Bowen, I recall a Greens supporter laying hands on my wife and telling her our children would suffer because of me. My office also received a steady stream of threats of violence, including death threats, pretty much entirely from people outside my electorate.
Those experiences are why I reject any suggestion that intimidation belongs exclusively to one political camp. No politician’s wife deserves to be harassed. A One Nation representative deserves to enjoy dinner without being threatened. Helen Haines deserves to go about her work in safety.
Political leaders must condemn violence consistently, police must establish the facts of the alleged Haines attack, and elected representatives must take peaceful grievances seriously. Australians should never have to choose between their safety and their right to participate in politics.
Police investigating the attack this morning advised the alleged driver had undergone a mental health check but no results have been released.
No motive has yet been given however Helen Haines supports Teals voting mainly along Greens agenda and is a climate cataclysm cultist hence she could have been targeted because of widespread environmental destruction of valuable farmland and native forests in Victoria caused by reckless renewables. – Ed
Lighthouse discussion https://halva.proboards.com/post/3403
“Jonathan” seems to think I am part of some kind of “Hegelian dialectic” that far right wingers like to natter about. Jane Burgermeister seems to be of the same opinion. What do you know about Jane Burgermeister? Nothing. Well, I posted this on the same day as the news came in about Helen Haines’ “accident”. https://main.cse-initiative.eu/?p=1935 (27/10/26: I indicated that I would submit for publication in Cairns News an article on Jane Burgermeister. The article was then published, but how? At the link immediately above. At the same time my Enouranois/CSE blog with Nikos Vakolidis was removed from accessibility. At this new link (click the above link) there was provision for one and only one comment, and I took advantage of this. You can see what I wrote if you click and scroll down. But I would also like to say this; I say it to my colleague Vakolidis, and I can’t post it anywhere suitable other than here: Message to Nikos Vakolidis
Obviously we have to find a way of continuing until we can get back access to Enouranois/CSE. Can you start a new blog? In the meantime I will post in a special section of the Enouranois English Language Forum.
W.H.
These are the first posts I will make in this new special section.
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Jut want to call People’s attention to what the journalist, Shane Dowling (you probably all remember him from years ago) has to say about the ‘dirt sheet’ Albanese cooked up about Helen just before she was hit twice by the same car and now has lost both legs. https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/10/25/exposed-why-pm-anthony-albanese-put-out-a-dirt-sheet-on-helen-haines/
Given the background to the Haines tragedy, how can anyone with any decency (provided they are not a shill or a political opportunist) without even knowing the alleged perpetrator’s motives immediately connect the Helen Haines tragedy with so called “political speech and violence” ? .
What sort of cynicism and depravity is it for the politicians and the MSM jockeys to immediately call for censorship of political speech and opposition before the reasons for the tragedy are known. There must be more to such crassness and opportunism than meets the eye.
There is one question that should be asked of every member of parliament – What have you done to improve the life of the country and its citizens (excluding ‘mates’)? I would suggest nothing. Or nothing that justifies the obscene salary and perks. Quite the contrary. In the half century I have lived in Australia, the country has been slowly and methodically destroyed by the political class, to the point where politicians are now openly hated and vilified. So, although I have every sympathy for Helen Haines as a person, and abhorrence of the attack on her, I fear that politicians have brought this type of reaction upon themselves.
On the other hand, has anybody considered that this might be Albo’s ‘Port Arthur’ moment, and that Helen Haines, as an expendable independent, might be used as an excuse for further restrictions on some aspect of life or, as in the West Australian of 21.10.26, an excuse for protection of pollies by police with long-arm rifles?
This was posted this morning by Morgan Begg of the Institute of Public Affairs in Canberra:
“There is no obvious link between (Brendan Nugent’s beliefs) and what took place. ” “There is no actual evidence that the attack was motivated by politics or ideology.”
Response” What is obvious to me is that a person who does not want to find evidence will not find evidence. And looking for personal links will not necessarily help detect idological links.
This is what I wrote yesterday at the Cairns News.org site:
“Helen Haines and Jane Burgermeister are the two opposite poles of “our movement”. Both regard themselves as being opposed to George Soros and Bill Gates. Both have been punished for their one-sided understanding of the overall scenario. They have been at each other’s throats more than they have been against Soros and Gates. (I am speaking metaphorically and in political terms because they almost certainly would not have known anything about each other as individuals).
Readers of “Cairns News.org” seem to be more adept at linking what is linkable than frequenters of the Institute of Public Affairs in Canberra.
https://cairnsnews.org/2026/10/20/helen-haines-mhr-in-critical-condition-after-being-hit-by-a-car/ (scroll down)
What is the IPA “view”? Reactive mode, implicitly defending through mentioning (and then “opposing”). Dear Wayne,
The horrific attack on Helen Haines this week shocked many because violence has thankfully never been a feature of Australia’s political tradition.
A range of theories have been put forward to explain why Brendan Nugent allegedly repeatedly drove into Haines, with the most credible explanation (at the time of writing) suggesting a combination of mental illness and drug use, with a personal connection between the alleged assailant and the victim possibly providing the motive.
But there is no actual evidence that the attack was motivated by politics or ideology. According to this social media posts, Nugent has apparently held a grab bag of eclectic left of centre beliefs, and there is no obvious link between them and what took place.
Begging you, Morgan, broaden your terms of reference.
W.H.
I should have cited this also:
https://halva.proboards.com/thread/1175/jane-burgermeister?page=1&scrollTo=3401
https://halva.proboards.com/post/3252
From the personal to the political.
Can’t Elbow just ban cars to keep us safe
Isaac : Other people have died being crushed in between two cars like the first wife of golfer Stuart Apalby who died at Victoria Station in London when she was unloading luggage, a car entered a non parking zone and drove straight into her
I apologise for my earlier comment doubting that she was hit by a car. I said she’d be dead if she was. Obviously she WAS hit by a car – it’s amazing she is alive still. But 2 legs amputated. I hope she recovers well enough to live a reasonable life. What trauma that would leave a lady with! I doubt that the suspect is right-wing though.
Probably Notaperson and Dandy have both identified relevant factors. And the link at the end of my posting of October 21st where I was diverted into lengthy autobiography by a misunderstanding of the Rt Hon Joe Bogan’s admittedly excessively esoteric comments on “Baron S Haccca”, has been removed, along with everything on the blog where its was posted. I stand by everything I said in that post, including what was said on the link, which I still have on paper and in USBs. There are as many imponderables in the Jane Burgermeister story as in the Helen Haines story. I will submit in for publication to Cairns News.
Lots of long winded comments here. So many I had to speed read and maybe I missed someone who hit the bullseye.
Here’s the bullseye. ~~~~~~~~
The first subject on her website
https://www.helenhaines.org/issues/where-i-stand-on/
“The ongoing conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip
Like many Australians, I am appalled by the ongoing loss of life in Gaza, the suffering of innocent people, the destruction of critical infrastructure including hospitals and the obstruction of food and medical supplies.
As your Independent MP, I am using my position as an elected representative to push for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, immediate humanitarian aid, and calling on the Australian Government to do more to put pressure on the Netanyahu Government to end this conflict.”
Commenter Hall
October 20, 2026 at 10:18 pm
Dandy, thanks, you saved me a chunk of time in expressing a similar train of thoughts.
In regard to what former Health Minister Greg Hunt called ‘the worlds biggest experiment’ ie, the covid vax roll-out, and its downstream effect, the best MSM can do is gaslight. But then, what to expect given their involvement in arguably the biggest crime in history?
One wonders if the otherwise once bright, active male driver of the vehicle who out of nowhere has been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory injury to his spinal cord which affects important involuntary functions of the heart, bladder, digestive, sexual function and so on, was in fact a VICTIM of an experimental injection because transverse myelitis is a recorded SIDE EFFECT of it. And he would certainly not be the only one whose life has been destroyed by it if that was the case. One also wonders if the ex Nurse, now Politician ‘friend’ of the family for many years, was in fact the one with her ‘nurse hat’ who encouraged him to participate in the experimental injection. There are reports he had admired her and her leadership. One also wonders if he worked out that it was a bad idea after all and his life was now ruined. Of course the public will continue to be gaslit. Nothing to see there or here or anywhere. However if INJURED victims are starting to get desperate, one wonders what their mental health, their ‘screaming’ (pain related), their misrepresentation, their stonewalling might cause them to do. Obviously not condoning what occurs because we don’t know what occurred exactly. He was ‘tackled’ ? enough to give him concussion. We don’t know his state of mind, we don’t know anything. All we can know for sure is that transverse myelitis is DEBILITATING and is supposed to be rare. Not anymore. Of course, they won’t go there, and the public will continue to be gaslit and this incident will be played like a fiddle.
The Rt Hon Joe Bogan wrote: “Haines of course took funding from Baron S Hacca’s Climate Foundation to get elected”. Rt Hon Joe why does AI not come up with anything at all for “Baron S Hacca”? How can your assertions be cross-checked if the inquirer can’t get past this elementary obstacle?
What a bummer that despite all the noise from our fearless political leaders and the MSM bullhorn jockeys about polite political discourse and democracy and how we need to curb free speech, we STILL know NOTHING about the alleged perpetrators reasons and motivations.
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IRRESPECTIVE OF THE EVENTUAL MOTIVATION AND CIRCUMSTANCES, one can only wonder why our opinion makers and their jockeys so IMMEDIATELY and in lockstep put the incident down to ‘political terrorism’ and ‘heated’ political discourse. IT’S ALMOST INDECENT HOW THEY SCRAMBLED TO KNOCK THEIR HIPS OFF TO RUN THEIR STORY before they even knew what the score really was.
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Are they concerned that the Average Joes are actually hurting a bit more than they thought or are they simply continuing the agenda of shutting down avenues for the expression of any opposition to their diktats?
Wayne Hall said…. “Pardon me if I attributed to “Jonathan” a position which was put forward most clearly by “Mr Nowhere Man.””
He, he… “Jonathan” may or may not forgive you, but “Jozef” will hate you forever.
Crikey
It appears the assailant was a drug-addled possibly psychotic lefty who may have attacked the politician because she had an ORANGE CAR !!! And an orange neckscarf, when she should have been wearing TEAL in line with her sponsor Baron S Hacca’s colour selection. Deranged lefties are going to be a hazard for orange party, as they are to society in general, but not as much as Global Elites with injections and every type of advance weaponry.
Pardon me if I attributed to “Jonathan” a position which was put forward most clearly by “Mr Nowhere Man.”
Rt Hon Joe Bogan I was hoping that you could enlighten me more than AI evidently can, but all you can enlighten me about is yourself and that you don’t read vital links.
Commenter hall
You have inflamed yourself for a very odd reason, where’s your papa gone refers to Baron Haccas papa, it’s actually a lyric from a very well known old song form the 70’s or thereabouts. I have kindly given you more than the answers you sought and now you complain they are not in your format. I don’t owe you a format whatever it is. I’m not going to read your long comment, it looks boring.
Helen Haines and Jane Burgermeister are the two opposite poles of “our movement”. Both regard themselves as being opposed to George Soros and Bill Gates. Both have been punished for their one-sided understanding of the overall scenario. They have been at each other’s throats more than they have been against Soros and Gates. (I am speaking metaphorically and in political terms because they almost certainly would not have known anything about each other as individuals).
What a pity that the comment section of every Cairns News publication is routinely bombarded by long-winded, irrelevant ego wars
Well, this discussion is turning out to be electrifyingly “relevant”. Let me start with two critics and then say some things about myself, though that is not the most important information. First the Rt Hon Joe Bogan”, who reacts condescendingly to my polite implied request for more details on “Baron S Hacca’s (Climate Foundation” after my resort to AI. The Rt Hon Joe asks impolitely “Where’s your papa gone?” OK, I’ll tell you not only about my papa but also about my grandfather. My grandfather was secretary of the local branch of the Labor Party at Adamstown in Newcastle. My father joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses, where he met my mother (his own mother, along with her sister, had come up from Victoria and both joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses from the Methodists when the Methodists supported the British mainstream in the war against Germany [World War 1]. When World War 2 broke out my father was in the public service in Sydney but he refused to go to war and was imprisoned in Grafton. When he got out my mother helped him hide and got him a job in a sawmill in the hinterland behind Port Macquarie. After the war he de facto left the JWs, got a job on the wharves (he couldn’t go back to being a public servant) and became a crypto Communist and a heavier drinker than was good for him. He was a loner, pro-Russia when that was even more unfashionable than now, and irritatingly argumentative. He made it to the age of fifty. Our family never went further north than Newcastle in New South Wales. What about me? When I graduated from the University of Sydney I went into the public service in Canberra, put up with it for one year and then resigned. After two years in Adelaide, briefy editing the Young Labor magazine, I moved to Melbourne where I joined the Trotskyist group called the Communist League, under the impressive leadership of the Queensland doctor John McCarthy, who made it to the age of sixty, ten years more than my father. He attracted Marcia Langton and the later successful writer Peter Robb (and also rather successful writer Gaele Sobott) to the group. But the Communist League was not able to survive. It decided to rejoin with the (inferior quality) Socialist Workers Party and disintegrated. The Trotskyist movement in any case could not deal with the realities of the disintegration of the USSR. Personally, I stuck it out in Australia until the Labor Party came under the leadership of Bob Hawke and that made me decide to emigrate to Greece. OK, enough of talking about myself. “Jonathan” seems to think I am part of some kind of “Hegelian dialectic” that far right wingers like to natter about. Jane Burgermeister seems to be of the same opinion. What do you know about Jane Burgermeister? Nothing. Well, I posted this on the same day as the news came in about Helen Haines’ “accident”. https://main.cse-initiative.eu/?p=1935
Commenter duck has pointed out, our elite untouchable governing class is in shock, their policies of saving money by letting criminals and loonies walk the streets, are showing cracks. We the sheeple only want a paddock full of juicy grass to munch on, that is, stability with no surprises and a growing trend in the economy. If we had that for decades the authorities could tell us to deposit our used toilet paper in the ballot box and a spectrograph would determine our voting intentions, and that would be good enough for us. Komrade Elbow has won this round with all politicians and media chanting his slogan, “turn the temperature down”.
Can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The culprit’s lawyer has apparently already tried to play the “mental health” card, quote:
“there are some mental health concerns; my client suffers from idiopathic transverse myelitis — it’s a neurological disorder,”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/key-issue-raised-for-alleged-mp-attacker/ar-AA2fGmVS
Problem being that said condition affects the spine not the brain, it could hardly be used to ameliorate an attempted murder
I think people are barking up the wrong tree, cause they’re brainwashed by a lifetime of propaganda that votes actually count. Not realising politicians are movie stars, and that puppet masters are directors producers never seen. Ditto for every nation world wide. Sure politicians are compromised and corrupt as hell, but they make absolutely no decisions on anything. We even vote with pencils, paper gets put in cardboard boxes destined for the bins of history. The election result known 1 hour after polling booths close. Spare me the bs.
Democracy more like demoncracy.
In other words we know jack sht about the case and the circumstances but are already frothing at the mouth about “political violence”, “democracy”, the “internet” and all sorts of other agendas. The MSM and the politicians mount their high horses AGAIN and start spraying us from the hip yet AGAIN with their various gaslighting agendas. Targeted elements of society are to blame before even THEY know the facts!!
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The fact that loonies are walking our streets unchecked ever since the mental hospitals closed their doors is of course irrelevant. Let’s not even register the mental health histories behind such violent attacks which are immediately and blatantly marked as ‘terrurism’ .
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If the arrested, alleged perpetrator allegedly displayed a previous propensity for violence and allegedly threatened two women motorists with a hammer, why was no action taken for a mental health check at the very least? Then, the fact that the alleged perpetrator was not even properly interviewed after the Haines tragedy because of his mental state surely suggests there is something missing from the “official” conversation which so INSTANTLY places the blame on “political rhetoric” and mounts an internet “threat” to our democracy.
It is fair to say politicians are listening and delivering results, but they are not listening to us, or delivering the results that serve this country. They are roundly recognised as traitors with their snouts in the trough, and with good reason. The bureaucracy churns out more and more legislation, written in garble impossible to understand, complete with entrapment devices, all for our safety. Even those who were previously prepared to put up with this bull shit to keep the peace are realising that sooner or later the corruption of these low life will catch up with them. Politicians are supposed to check the bureaucracy, but this spoiled crop of agenda driven traitors simply sign off and do as they’re told. That makes me entirely disinterested in their well being. I’m old enough to know realistically a reckoning is coming, because multiple parliaments have plunged the ‘lucky’ country into the hands of off shore interests and by doing so have sold off the hope of the younger generations. Sooner or later the bubble will burst.
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/indi/helen_haines
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I don’t know much about the lady and wish her a speedy recovery: I don’t condone non-defensive violent aggression of any kind.
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What I do know is from the above link and if I remember correctly she supported Draconian Dan’s lockdowns and other COVID-19 measures, that were not supported by evidence based science, but were pushed onto businesses without full disclosure from Australia’s political states, to force onto the people, no jab-no job, unlawfully enforce the COVIDSafe app on staff and people who visited their business premises, walk around without a non certified mask outside a restaurant, wear one once inside then remove it once seated 🤪: In 2020, 48.2 was the number of deaths (A.B.S.) of males and females combined, above the previous 2015-2019 five years average total all-cause mortality in Australia, was not indicative of a pandemic; less total deaths than in 2019.
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Lying, sponging politicians creating hate and division by stigmatising, singling out the unvaccinated; their non inclusive, bigoted narratives spewed by prestitutes and talking heads from paid SLAVE-MEDIA’s fake news outlets, and government advertising to deliberately confuse the public and coerce them to play Russian-roulette, Guinea Pig, once, twice, three times four, with a never before mankind tested, novel poison, and childish actors on adds frightening little children that they might not be able to go to a party, like implying they pressure their parents for a chocolate at the supermarket checkout.
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Healthy people dying suddenly, from frequent-extremely rare medical conditions, turbo cancers; sudden onset motor-neuron disease, first symptom Wednesday, diagnosed Thursday, end of life ward and dead Friday, buried Monday, M-N. D takes years of multiple specialists to diagnose; another’s, massive heart attack on his death certificate and long COVID, but had never had COVID-19.
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Albanese described hard-right populists as peddling politics that was “dangerous, divisive, and downright dishonest”’
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I remember a woman having the balls to call Albo a liar on national television, when he scruffed the microphone uninvited at a rally protesting male partner violence, 2023-24 maybe.
A cyclist died from a hit and run the other day, I feel more empathy for their family and close friends than a COVID-era politician.
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“Violence” is only not the answer if it has an opposite effect to that which was intended.
To say “violence is never the answer” is to say “I want to be a slave to those that do not believe and act as I do”.
Or; to say: “violence in never the answer” is a mantra that has been programmed into the minds of the slaves since birth by those that have control of the “force” and “might”= power over the slaves, intended to short-circuit any threat of an uprising to DEPOSE the holders and abusers of that power and replace them with an alternative.
MIGHT MAKES RIGHT IN THIS WORLD.
Who controls the “might”?
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The story of the “attack” has a smell of psyop to it.
Who benefits from this crime? What will be the results?
Some in this comment section are already telegraphing a “solution”…more power and protection for “politicians”…
Like; contrived-PROBLEM–predictable-REACTION–preplanned-SOLUTION?
Commenter Hall
It’s called “Climate 200”, you need to get up to speed on who is running this place. Papa HaC, the richest guy in Australia at that time, died suddenly with no illness and no warning then his wife took over the business and no worries mate, piece of cake.
So, where’s your papa gone ( where’s your papa gone ) far, far away, speaking of Africa, that’s what happened to the uncle too ! A super rich, eaten by a lion and never seen again !!! What a coincidence.
Teals founder Holmes a’ Court is a decendent of an English Baron
Sorry – this post is a long one but as a long term Indi resident it probably carries more authenticity than the endless ramblings of “experts” on the internet who probably hadn’t even heard of Haines or Indi until yesterday.
I live in the Indi electorate (moved there nearly a decade ago to retire) and don’t believe what you read when they say she was universally liked (as a politician) and that none of her policies were polarising. That is complete garbage. Putting aside what she is like as a private person (I have absolutely no idea but I reckon she is a very decent person outside of politics) I would go so far as to say that Haine’s extreme hard left climate policy has resulted in the most divided electorate in the entire nation. It might be the upper middle class and above in their inner capital city and suburban mansions and high end units who vote for this climate and renewables nonsense, but it’s right here in Indi where thanks to Haines being the staunchest Labor and Greens ally, the rubber hits the road with solar farms, transmission lines and batteries growing everywhere like out of control weeds.
I and many thousands of other Indi residents have had a gutful of this mindless renewables garbage (and Helen’s obsession with the electrification of everything including EVs) and quite honestly when I heard about this attack, apart from being very upset and ashamed that Australia had come to this, I simply said to myself: well, it has finally happened – a right wing Indi farmer whose land got turned into house of mirrors went stark raving mad (a bit like what happened to Dezi Freeman when the Andrews Government pushed and pushed and pushed till Freeman cracked). But of course no – it turns out it was the work of a left wing nut job. And a typical left wing hypocrite no less. A self-described climate warrior and coal hater who apparently is happy to drive around in a dirty old smelly polluting Landcruiser. Whereas here is me, centre right, who thinks the climate nonsense is a cult and I drive a tiny car that emits about the same amount of CO2 as my own lungs do.
I can’t say I am a fan of Helen’s other politics either. She gets this wrap for championing of health but when I wrote to her about a serious policy issue relating to health, I got the brush off. She said that those matters are determined by unelected bureaucrats (not her words but that is who she was referring to). To which I replied asking why was she even in Parliament if she wasn’t going to represent my concerns and instead leave the decision making to someone that no one elected and is not accountable to the citizens whose lives are directly affected by their decisions. I also had hard evidence that people were being seriously harmed by this Federal policy.
That aside, I had actually been quite surprised (and alarmed in a fearful sort of way) that Haines never seemed to have security around her and I feared she would be an easy target though I obviously got the motivation for such attacks wrong since being a resident here and knowing her politics so well, I just assumed any threats would come from the radical right because she is as far left as the Greens on policies that matter the most. And the left side of politics does truly adore her. But I think we do now need to look at permanent security details for all politicians regardless of what side of politics they belong to. Although to this point in modern times, nearly all violence has been perprated by the left, we saw with Dezi Freeman that those on the opposite side of the fence can crack as well. We as a country would have no trouble whatsoever affording this if Governments did not waste the majority of the taxes we pay to them.
Does anyone know about the PM’s office writing up a dirt file on Helen Haines a few weeks ago to try to destroy her political future after she went after the PM for our $millions he granted his golf course near one of his houses ?
“Baron S Hacca’s Climate Foundation”: Rt Hon Joe Bogan the closest I can find to this in connection with a Climate Foundation is a certain Richard Baron. AI says: “There is no prominent organization or individual officially named “Baron S Hacca’s Climate Foundation”. It is highly likely you are looking for one of the following climate-focused entities or real-world policy experts with similar names: [1]
1. Richard Baron & The European Climate Foundation (ECF)
If you are thinking of a person named “Baron” working in climate policy, you may be referring to Richard Baron. [1]”:
In response to P: what can be done depends on whether a polity has or doesn’t have a bicameral legislature. Where I live now, in Greece, we no longer have a bicameral legislature though on two occasions since the founding of the modern Greek state on 26th January (!) 1828 we have had one, which was quickly terminated, on the grounds of alleged inefficiency. In Australia the best example of a bicameral legislature is in the oldest Australian parliament, that of New South Wales, established in 1823 (older than the oldest modern Greek parliament, which came into existence only after a popular uprising [with Greek military support], in 1843. I lived in Sydney when I lived in Australia, so I am familiar with NSW politics of the past, and to a certain extent the present. New South Wales is the best example because the Legislative Council (upper house) has had to win credibility after challenge (by the Labor government of Jack Lang in the 30s and a referendum which he lost). Jack Lang was not able to follow the example of Queensland, which had abolished its parliament’s upper house. The New South Wales Legislative Council is proud of being Australia’s oldest parliamentary body, and proud of its inclusiveness. I think the pride is justified but it doesn’t go far enough. The reform of the NSW Legislative Council which abolished the last traces of property qualifications and introduced allegedly perfected universal suffrage is the achievement of the Labor government of Neville Wran, a totally convinced republican. Personally I am not a republican, and I also do not think that democracy is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The idea of democracy in a form recognizable to the modern “Western” world came into existence in ancient Greece, but as ONE side of a problematic. Anyone who has read Herodotus, a Greek who grew up in the Persian Empire, and wrote about a great variety of matters, included in his narrative the doings and ideas of the Persian politician and successful insurgent Darius (and what he said to his mates) . What Darius according to Herodotus thought of democracy (and Greeks!) is worth examining and assimilating. It is not complimentary. But the Athenian democracy also threw up ideas like that of sortition (a lottery) as a supplement to voting. A parliamentary upper house that is created through sortition and not through voting might seem a recipe for chaos but if candidates for selection emerge from the decisions of a court to exclude those deemed as unsuitable to be popular representatives (did such an exclusion not recently occur in Romania?) and if this court was obliged to listen to input from the general public and if the parliamentary upper house did not peacefully coexist with the lower house (as is the situation in New South Wales) but instead competed with it for a mandate, would we be on the way to obtaining a better system for governing states than what is at present available? What do we say?
If I was a politician with skeletons in the closet, I’d not be crossing any roads.
I am curious if this is a case of domestic violence by a man turned away by someone he thought he loved because that would fit the extreme violent act of what he did .
There is no excuse for violence against people, regardless of grievance. I’m sorry she has suffered such a horrific attack. Am concerned this bloke may have been a Manchurian candidate or just mentally unwell, and the deep state in Oz will use the suffering of this poor woman this to further remove people’s rights.
I recall the guy who allegedly killed the 2 cops in Victoria ( we have no proof released publically that he actually pulled the trigger ) not long ago had taken Dan to trial on treason charges and surprise – he is no more after outwitting a small army of highly plod for months and made them look like fools.
Again, there is no excuse for violence.
One looks at how the population was abused systematically during COVID by the powers that be, to see they have no qualms on inflicting harm on the people.
Blessings Hon. Helen Haines. MP. Former nurse and staunch Whistleblower Protection and Anti-Corruption Advocate. Which is why I have corresponded with her on May 2023 and October 2024 – Ironically, I am also a victim of attempted murder by motor vehicle (TAS Rego CS-0034) which came thundering at me at 80kmph, missing me by inches! Hours prior, I was being stalked by State Sponsored ‘Hired Gun Thugs’ physically bashed, mentally terrorised, then death threats, “back off now or you’ll disappear six-foot under!” – This was political ‘payback’ for my ethical role and function as an ‘involuntary’ Mental Health Whistleblower in TasMANIA. (Never investigated, themselves) My Victim of Crimes application with Statutory Declaration was rejected, stating: “We don’t have the resources to investigate.” i.e. I’m a non-citizen in a non-democracy. Hon. Helen Haines assault/attack has triggered flashback C-PTSD memories and traumas of my own horror experiences – On public record in my non-fiction book: “ONE FLEW OVER the KOOKABURRA’S NEST” 2023 Revised 3rd Edition – Chapter 13 “Who Let the Dog’s Out? Who? Who Gave the Orders? Who?” – We still don’t exactly know who, yet. Amen. DROMANABOOKS.COM – Kevin Moylan RPN 1980 – 2024
LOL. “Rammed” 3 times against a car. What exaggeration; she’d be dead if that were true.
its become very obvious to the average person that the majority of their elected representatives are NOT their actual representatives but in fact are secretly working on behalf of foreign entities – which this actually makes them traitors, however they are now protected from investigation/prosecution by federal legislation… so what options does this leave the general public, can’t vote them out , can’t prosecute and incarcerate , so what can be done ?
I heard Haines was rammed multiple times against another car, which is another level above threats and body contact. It’s hard to guess with certainty what the LandCruiser driver was thinking, if he was even in control of his own mind, but the authorities and M$M I doubt will clear anything up, rather they will use this incident for political advantage. Haines of course took funding from Baron S Hacca’s Climate Foundation to get elected, but peculiarly uses orange instead of teal for her colour coding. Climate hysteria and ALP deliberate incompetence is ruining lives, I can’t see 3 moves ahead but I can easily see opportunities for advantage for the ALP’s Globalist agendas in this uncanny incident right from the word go.
This wasn’t just some braindead bogan with a gripe ,he being University educated in forest management who took out his grievance on a member of parliament are there are more like him that we should be worried about ?