Keane Bourke is a state political reporter at ABC News WA. He joined ABC News in 2019 as a multi-platform reporter and photojournalist.
After the attacks on Helen Haines and the office of Hannah Beazley, lawmakers in Western Australia are growing worried about the rising political tensions, and want more ways to defuse them.
A man who allegedly threatened staff at Hannah Beazley's electorate office was known to police, the commissioner reveals, as he urges politicians not to retreat from their communities.
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Hannah Beazley said her staff had been left shaken over the incident.
A man charged over an allegedly threatening incident at Labor MP Hannah Beazley's electorate office tells a Perth court he was holding a musical instrument, not a weapon, as police allege.