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Police say the attack on Helen Haines was deliberate but isolated, they refuse to rule out further charges, as the accused attacker appears in court and the MP herself fights for her life in hospital.

Politicians are raising security fears of their own, in the wake of an attack on prominent independent MP Dr helen Haines. So how can we better protect the people representing us?

Wangaratta locals dealing with the attack on their local member Helen Haines which has  other politicians now fearing for their safety.

The regional community of Wangaratta is struggling to understand a violent attack on its local federal MP Helen Haines.

Independent Federal MP Helen Haines is in hospital with critical injuries after being hit by a car, in an attack outside her Wangaratta office.   

The family of a man in custody over yesterday's ramming attack on Helen Haines has released a statement saying they are devastated by what has happened to the Indi MP, whom they describe as a friend of more than 20 years.

On Monday afternoon, Victorian man Brendan Nugent, 43, allegedly used a white Toyota LandCruiser to strike independent MP Helen Haines twice.  

After a weekend of the worst civil unrest in decades in France, markets are nervously waiting to see what the political response will be - but where there's political ramifications, economic ones are also sure to follow.

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert weighs in on the upcoming election, and the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Francom.

As the independent member for Indi Helen Haines fights for her life in a Melbourne hospital the Governor General of Australia Sam Mostyn reflects on the ugly forces working to undermine Australian democracy and urges Australians to 'show kindness…

"This wasn't an accident. This was a deliberate act.” Stark words have been shared by the Prime Minister following a devastating alleged attack on Independent MP Helen Haines yesterday afternoon, who remains in a critical condition.

Jurors have visited Jesse Baird’s Paddington home where the shootings occurred, inspecting the layout and areas where investigators found bloodstains. 

Political tradition usually dictates that the midterm elections are bad news for the incumbent president. But when has Donald Trump ever been traditional?

Before we knew about El Niño, La Niña and the other patterns scientists now use to make long-range weather forecasts, there were men like Inigo Jones, whose prediction methods owed more to astronomy than to meteorology.

Serge Benhayon has been leading a cult out of the Byron Bay hinterland — just south of the Queensland border — for more than a decade. He was found by a jury to be a charlatan who swindles cancer patients.

Democrats are being urged not to count their chickens after the latest Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, which shows President Trump's approval rating has plummeted to a new low of 33%.

On Monday afternoon, Victorian man Brendan Nugent, 43, allegedly used a white Toyota LandCruiser to strike independent MP Helen Haines twice.  

From a press secretary who lasted just five days to a dramatic pivot to Putin, Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh wave of chaos inside the White House. 

They've been fired, demoted, and even offered sham redundancies. 

Melbourne-born academic Tristan Buckmaster says he was maybe just one month away from solving the Navier-Stokes equation, a maths problem so difficult there was a million-dollar prize on offer for anyone who could.  

It was meant to be the biggest ASX listing since the privatisation of Telstra, but last week the initial public offering for Firmus was dramatically pulled before a single share was traded. 

The US president says he’s still deciding whether to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 unarmed US soldiers in a 2009 shooting.  

The US President has eased sanctions on the Kremlin, clearing the way for a lucrative deal to import Russian diesel.

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