SYDNEY, Oct 19 — Australian independent lawmaker Helen Haines was deliberately struck by a car today and suffered “critical injuries”, authorities said, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as an attack.
Haines was hit outside her office in Wangaratta, just over 200km north-west of Melbourne, police said.
The 65-year-old “suffered what has been described as critical injuries” in the attack, Victoria Police Acting Superintendent Ashley Mason said, without identifying the victim in line with police custom in Australia.
The 43-year-old male driver was detained by civilians, Mason said, and then arrested by police.
