{"id":2234261,"date":"2026-11-03T01:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2234261"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:57:46","slug":"one-nation-man-and-boy-arrested-over-alleged-assault-on-party-volunteer-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2234261","title":{"rendered":"One Nation: Man and boy arrested over alleged assault on party volunteer in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The One Nation volunteer remains in a stable condition in hospital<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Two people have been arrested after a volunteer for Australia’s right-wing populist party One Nation was allegedly assaulted with a baseball bat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A man, 37, and a boy, 14, were arrested on Sunday night after an incident outside the volunteer’s home in Torquay, about 100km (62 miles) south-west of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The man was charged with assault offences and remanded in custody while the boy was issued with a caution. The volunteer was hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries, police said. He remains in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One Nation’s Victorian leader Warren Pickering claimed the attack happened after the pair “interfered with” election signs on the volunteer’s property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police haven’t provided any detail about a motive, but Pickering said the alleged assault was “un-Australian and unacceptable”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Political violence or intimidation of any kind against anyone is unacceptable in this country,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“If you don’t like someone’s politics, you vote accordingly. You don’t assault them.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson visited the injured volunteer at University Hospital Geelong where he is recovering, praising his “resilience” and “belief” in her party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“He wants to go right back out there and put the signs up,” she said outside the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The party has said the man has serious injuries, and shared a photo of him with severe swelling and bruising to his face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Victorian Premier Ben Carroll described the attack as “shocking”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Whether you’re wearing a red, a blue, an orange, or a green T-shirt, they are volunteers,” he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“They are out there doing what they believe is right, and no one should be coming under attack.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The alleged attack comes during a state election campaign in Victoria, and amid a reckoning in the country more broadly over the tone of political debate, after the attack on Federal MP Helen Haines last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police have not detailed a motive for the incident – which left Haines needing both of her legs amputated – but politicians, law enforcement, and experts have said heated public discourse is heightening the threat of political violence in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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