The Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe account\u2019s bio reads, \u201cPlant Person \u2026 The world should be run by dogs and children.\u201d<\/p>\n
He appeared to praise Ms Haines in 2019, writing, \u201cWould\u2019ve been nice to include a politician who takes climate change seriously, such as yourself,\u201d in a reply to the MP after she promoted an episode of ABC panel show QandA.<\/p>\n
Also in 2019, he tagged Ms Haines in a post criticising \u201cLNP-funded anti-independent propaganda\u201d in Indi.<\/p>\n
Mr Nugent has voiced support for Gaza and environmental issues like climate change and forestry, speaking out against the Victorian government over logging projects.<\/p>\n
His most recent post on October 18 was in reference to reports of \u201csexual abuse, including rape\u201d of prisoners \u201cduring processing and detention by Israeli forces\u201d.<\/p>\n
Some of his posts touched on popular conspiratorial themes, including a re-post of a YouTube video titled, \u201cThe Whistleblower: Did Epstein\u2019s Network Reemerge In Charlie Kirk\u2019s World?\u201d<\/p>\n
A June 2022 reply to another user hinted at troubles in his personal life.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou really have no idea, do you,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI have a masters degree, H1 average, still can get the basic assistance I need to work. Tried many times. Disability pension not enough to manage it so I\u2019m constantly broke spending on health, NDIS is unavailable. We are left to sit in pain 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2020 he reacted to an article about former PM Scott Morrison\u2019s climate change policy. \u201cHey @GuardianAus and all media, please stop calling these people \u2018conservative\u2019,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere is no position more radical than the one they are proposing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The previous year he also hit out at Anthony Albanese, writing, \u201cPollution from coal fired power plants kills over 4000 Australians every year so please spare me your absurd hypocrisy as the leader of a pro-coal-at-any-cost party pretending to be concerned about the damage coal does to people and our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Nugent was often critical of the state Labor Government.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour daily reminder that the native logging industry gets special treatment no other industry enjoys,\u201d he posted in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not about jobs \u2013 plantations and dairy generate far more jobs and revenue. It\u2019s about dodgy deals [between] @DanielAndrewsMP and the @CFMEU that are destroying rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
What condition is Helen Haines in?<\/p>\n
Ms Haines has lost a leg after being pinned between two cars in the alleged vehicle ramming attack, the ABC reports.<\/p>\n
The 65-year-old was initially taken to Wangaratta Hospital before being flown to Melbourne\u2019s Alfred Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery overnight.<\/p>\n
She remained in critical but stable condition on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Hero barber Ricky Jeffries, whose store is just a couple of shops down from where the incident unfolded, tackled the alleged driver to the ground after the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m a hero. I think that I just was a person who had an opportunity to intervene in a safe-ish sort of way,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe did have a knife. He didn\u2019t pull it out. I just wasn\u2019t comfortable with his movements, and so I basically just took it out of his pocket and threw it away.\u201d<\/p>\n
The barber declined to say what the alleged driver said at the scene. \u201cThat will be for the police. Yeah, that\u2019s that\u2019ll be for the cops, for the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Asked what was going through his head he said he wanted to stay safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife will be disappointed if I\u2019m injured. My family, is everything, and my community is second to that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was just trying to not get injured and not let anyone else be injured after the initial incident. I\u2019m humbled, and I\u2019m grateful. I feel grateful and blessed to have been here to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people, the other people here, they did so much more than me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was my role to play in this, and but the other people here, like they deserve the credit, and it\u2019s just it\u2019s such a small town. It\u2019s hard it\u2019s hard to stand up here and talk because, you know, everyone here like the first \u2026 people on scene were people I know. The first police, [I] cut the hair of the first firies, cut their hair [of] the first ambos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nugent \u2018delirious\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Nugent was reportedly \u201cdelirious\u201d and \u201cmumbling slurs\u201d when detained by members of the public after the alleged vehicle ramming attack on Ms Haines.<\/p>\n
News24 reports the 43-year-old was not interviewed by police on Monday night because he was still under the influence of drugs and\/or alcohol.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought he was trying to run away, but he then reversed and drove back into her another three times before trying to flee,\u201d one witness told reporters, per The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was there to restrain him against the wall, but yeah, more or less they got him out of the car. He was quite delirious \u2026 We did what we could. He was just more or less mumbling slurs and more worried about his personal belongings in his car than anyone else or the trouble he\u2019s caused.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Nugent has been in custody since his arrest on Monday afternoon and spent this morning being questioned by detectives after undergoing a mental health assessment. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are ascertaining exactly what occurred, how and why,\u201d Acting Superintendent Ashley Mason said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MP Helen Haines\u2019 accused attacker lived in squalor shocking new pictures can reveal. 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