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Wieambilla shooting: lawyers for Donald Day mount freedom-of-speech defence over alleged threats to police

Arizona conspiracy theorist who was arrested in connection to Queensland terrorist attack seeking to have charges dismissed

The Guardian - AU · Dec 28, 2023

Foreign relations: why an isolated Arizona man was arrested in connection to the Wieambilla shooting in Australia

Facebook posts show Donald Day Jr increasingly withdrawing from community and society as he grew closer to those he met online, including Queensland couple who killed police in 2022 shooting

The Guardian - AU · Dec 8, 2023

Wieambilla shooting arrest: Donald Day Jr’s day of reckoning at an Arizona Dairy Queen

Day’s friends had shot dead two police who came to their Queensland property. The FBI was taking no such chances

The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2023

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‘Fight and die well’: the US conspiracy theorist linked to the Wieambilla shooters

Donald Day, charged with inciting violence, preached far-right rhetoric about enforced vaccinations and attempts to ban Christianity

The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2023

Wieambilla shootings: FBI arrests US man in connection with Queensland terrorist attack that left six dead

Donald Day, who communicated with Gareth and Stacey Train online, was arrested in Arizona on 1 December

The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2023

Wieambilla shootings: questions remain on monitoring of domestic extremists

Trio embraced ‘dizzying intersection of narratives, ideologies and conspiracies’, but that did not justify attention from authorities, expert says

The Guardian - AU · Nov 25, 2023

‘Some people have lost everything’: Queensland town ‘saved’ as NSW fire threatens explosive storage facility

Eleven evacuation warnings were issued across northern NSW and Queensland, for areas including Nymboida, Tabulam, Woodside, Tara and Wieambilla

The Guardian - AU · Oct 31, 2023

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Australian firearms registry ‘one step closer’, with cabinet decision expected mid-year

Renewed calls for database to track guns across the country sparked by fatal 2022 Wieambilla shooting

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2023

Nathaniel Train purchased ammunition in lead up to Wieambilla shooting despite suspended gun licence, Queensland police confirm

Nathaniel Train was able to purchase ammunition in the lead up to a fatal police shooting in Queensland even though his gun license was suspended.

ABC News · Feb 17, 2023

Queensland police say the Wieambilla shooting is a terrorist attack motivated by premillennialism. Here's what that means

Premillennialism is the belief that after a period of extreme suffering, Jesus Christ will physically return to Earth for 1,000 years. A far-right and religious extremism expert says the ideology is experiencing "renewed momentum".

ABC News · Feb 16, 2023

Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack

US man labelled an ongoing person of interest as Queensland police say there is no evidence of domestic accomplices

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2023

Queensland police say Wieambilla shooting was 'a religiously motivated terrorist attack'

Queensland police say Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train acted as an autonomous cell and had planned an "attack directed at police".

ABC News · Feb 16, 2023

PM flags overhaul of Australia’s counter-terror laws to combat ‘real threat’ of rightwing extremism

Recent murders of police officers at Wieambilla highlight need for action to protect community safety, Anthony Albanese says

The Guardian - AU · Feb 3, 2023

Wieambilla bushfires believed to have been deliberately lit

Multiple blazes that have swept through more than 1,000 hectares of land at Wieambilla on Queensland's Western Downs are being treated as suspicious.

ABC News · Jan 30, 2023

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The Guardian - AU · Jan 18, 2023

Four teenagers in custody after shots fired in southern Queensland town of Tara

Police had declared an exclusion zone in the centre of Tara, 40km south of Wieambilla which saw a deadly ambush of police in December

ABC News · Dec 22, 2022

Rural firies save Wieambilla good samaritan Alan Dare's property from suspicious bushfire

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services say it is too early to determine the cause of the blaze, but are treating the bushfire as suspicious.

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2022

Morning Mail: conspiracists build Wieambilla alternate reality, Victory fans banned, Azealia Banks ‘disgrace’

In today’s newsletter: people creating a ‘grand conspiracy’ to avoid the ‘uncomfortable’ truth about Queensland tragedy; US rapper in final spray after chaotic tour

ABC News · Dec 20, 2022

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AAP · Dec 20, 2022

'Our hearts go out' to officers' families

Thousands of people have gathered in Brisbane for the memorial service for Queensland police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow who were shot dead.

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2022

Australia-wide firearms register on national cabinet agenda more than 30 years after first being suggested

Renewed push comes after last week’s fatal shooting of two Queensland police officers and a neighbour in Wieambilla

ABC News · Dec 18, 2022

Two men charged with looting from property where Queensland police officers were shot

Police were patrolling the Wieambilla property early this morning when they allege two men entered on foot and began rolling the vehicles to a car parked nearby.

ABC News · Dec 17, 2022

Tara's isolated rural blocks in spotlight after police officers gunned down at Wieambilla property

Tara's rural blocks have been the site of one of Queensland's worst shootings, but how did "blockies" come to be living in isolation?

The Guardian - AU · Dec 16, 2022

As more is revealed about the Wieambilla shooters, some question why Gareth Train was not on authorities’ radar

Experts are concerned the threat of far-right extremism and sovereign citizens is not being taken seriously. But that could change after the murder of three people in Queensland

The Conversation · Dec 16, 2022

Queensland police killings show the threat posed by conspiracy theories – how should police respond?

The killing of two police officers and a good samaritan, as well as the wounding of two other officers in Wieambilla, Queensland, has sent shockwaves through Australia.

The Guardian - AU · Dec 15, 2022

NSW Liberals members suspended for ‘elaborate’ branch-stacking scheme – as it happened

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