Lawmaker reportedly loses leg as car ramming stuns Australia
- Political violence is extremely rare in Australia, where lawmakers are often out in public with little or no security and their accessibility is a point of national pride.
- “It’s an Australian tradition to have a chat to a politician that you bump into at the shops,” Josh Roose, an associate professor of politics at Deakin University in Melbourne, told NBC News in an interview.
- But threats are rising as political rhetoric becomes more extreme, officials and experts say, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Political violence is extremely rare in Australia, where lawmakers are often out in public with little or no security and their accessibility is a point of national pride.
- “It’s an Australian tradition to have a chat to a politician that you bump into at the shops,” Josh Roose, an associate professor of politics at Deakin University in Melbourne, told NBC News in an interview.
- But threats are rising as political rhetoric becomes more extreme, officials and experts say, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sources: NBC News