Helen Haines live updates: Police are charging ‘almost one individual every week’ for targeting politicians, MP critical after surgery to save second leg

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Deeply appalled’: politicians condemn alleged attack after Helen Haines critically injured Helen Haines, the principled MP respected across parliament Tracee Hutchison will not run in Victoria’s state election in November, despite winning almost a quarter of first preferences at the by-election in May, citing rising violence towards women.

Speaking to AAP, Hutchison shared her distress for Helen Haines and also recalled her personal experience of “a sustained, organised harassment and bullying campaign”.

The verbal harassment I experienced, and that the women my team did, was unlike anything I had anticipated.

There is no framework for the officers to do anything other than come out to the polling booth and tell everyone to behave.

They then go back inside and people kick off again.

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