Video taking off 42x its usual first day

Helen Haines attack and a warning on political threats lead 10's Late News

Political editor Ashleigh Raper sets the Wangaratta attack against a wider rise in hostility toward elected officials, while police say the motive is not known.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 253,438 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (6,005).

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0:01Ursula Heger opens with the car attack on MP Helen Haines outside her Wangaratta office.
2:21At the Alfred Hospital, Rebeka Powell reports Haines is critical with severe lower-body injuries.
4:16Ashleigh Raper examines growing threats and hostile rhetoric aimed at elected officials.
8:22Brisbane police investigate whether a man's death is linked to dogs that attacked a jogger.
13:03A fire during a live-fire exercise at an Alberta military base leaves four soldiers dead.
21:16An update confirms Haines remains critically injured, followed by the arrest recap at 29:10.

Helen Haines was getting things out of the back of her parked car outside her Wangaratta electorate office, just after 3:30 in the afternoon, when she was hit by a Toyota LandCruiser. 10 News reports that the car struck her deliberately. The independent federal MP, who represents the regional Victorian seat of Indi, is in critical condition at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital.

"She is in the fight of her life," reporter Rebeka Powell says outside the hospital, where Haines is being treated for severe lower-body injuries. Victoria Police say witnesses detained the driver. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirms that the joint counter-terrorism team has been activated and says the motive is not known.

The attack opens the full edition of 10's Late News, which passed 200,000 views within 16 hours. A regular-length video on the channel usually draws only a few thousand on its first day. A separate report on Haines alone came close to that audience.

The bulletin does not stay on the hospital steps. Political editor Ashleigh Raper describes a changed climate for people in public office: "respectful political debate in so many cases has been replaced by shouting," she says. She treats this as background, not as an explanation of the attack.

The half hour then moves on. Queensland Police have not ruled out a connection between a man's death in Brisbane and dogs that attacked a jogger in the same area. There are riots across France, and four Canadian soldiers were killed in a blaze during a live-fire exercise at a base in Alberta. Later, presenter Ursula Heger's program returns to Haines with an update on the arrest.

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