Australian MP loses leg and remains critically injured after ‘targeted’ car attack

‘And she’s someone who is a beacon of light for that community there in northern Victoria.’

Opposition leader Angus Taylor,who is head of the Liberal Party,said he is ‘deeply saddened and distressed’ by the incident.

Haines was set to appear on ABC Afternoon Briefing that afternoon,host Patricia Karvelas said.

The politicians’ team messaged the programme crew saying: ‘There’s been something very serious that’s happened. She cannot come on.’

Karvelas said: ‘She fought fiercely,as you know,for an independent body that investigated corruption.’

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