🇦🇺 Australian MP Helen Haines was targeted in an attempted assassination and rammed with a car by a radical far-left environmentalist. She is in critical condition and has lost a leg. The attack happened outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Suspect Brendan Nugent, 43, was arrested at the scene. Police are treating it as a deliberate and politically motivated attack. Haines, 65, was unloading her car when Nugent turned a white Toyota Land Cruiser into the car park, pinned her against her vehicle, then reversed and rammed her a second time. A local barber pulled Nugent from the car, subdued him, and threw away a knife found in the vehicle. Haines was airlifted to hospital.

🇦🇺 Australian MP Helen Haines was targeted in an attempted assassination and rammed with a car by a radical far-left environmentalist.

She is in critical condition and has lost a leg.

The attack happened outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Suspect Brendan Nugent, 43, was arrested at the scene.

Police are treating it as a deliberate and politically motivated attack.

Haines, 65, was unloading her car when Nugent turned a white Toyota Land Cruiser into the car park, pinned her against her vehicle, then reversed and rammed her a second time.

A local barber pulled Nugent from the car, subdued him, and threw away a knife found in the vehicle.

Haines was airlifted to hospital. After surgery, she lost one leg and doctors are trying to save the other. She remains critical but stable.

Nugent, from Tarrawingee, is known as a radical far-left environmentalist and anti-logging campaigner.

Investigators are reviewing his social media posts, including anti-Israel and pro-environment content. He had previously interacted online with Haines.