Aggressive and violent incidents involving federal MPs are on the rise, with the Australian Federal Police last year receiving more than 500 reports of threats to the safety of ministers.
in 2021 led the AFP to conduct an internal review of the safety of Australian politicians.
He said MPs needed to follow security advice from the AFP and arrangements need to be constantly reviewed to stay ahead of the threats. “There was a rise of far-right and neo-Nazi activity to disrupt the political process and we saw damage done to political signs for Labor, Liberal and the Greens because these people don’t believe in a liberal democratic system of government,” he said.
In 2021, then-opposition MP and now resources minister Madeleine King revealed she had been forced to hire her own lawyer and took out a restraining order against a man who repeatedly turned up to her office and abused staff for more than a year, calling itKing was also given an AFP protection detail when she attended an oil and gas conference in Adelaide last year because of the reported threat from some protestors.
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