Anthony Albanese: “Helen Haines is incredibly hardworking. She is fiercely intelligent, but most importantly, she’s just a thoroughly…”

We can have differences. They should be debated out in a democracy, but they shouldn't be the subject of personal rancour and the calling into people's motivation where it's not appropriate to do so.

All of our thoughts are with Helen, her family, her friends, her team, and her community at this extremely difficult time. We are praying for her full recovery.

It is too early in this investigation for me to provide you with details of what the motivation is behind this attack.

I've expressed that concern to people in the media. The concern, if you look at anyone's social media feeds and look at the comments, people will say things that they would never say face to face.