Sydney – Australia’s security chiefs had warned of “online echo chambers” fueling grievances and conspiracies and stepped up prosecutions for threats of political violence ahead of Monday’s attack on a lawmaker in a rural town.
Independent lawmaker Helen Haines, 65, underwent surgery overnight but remains in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car in an attack that “does shake all of us,“?Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.
National broadcaster ABC and the Sydney Morning Herald reported she had lost a leg.
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