PM Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to the police officers and neighbour who lost their lives during this week's tragic ambush shooting in Queensland. 9News MORE:
Prime minister Anthony Albanese described the incident as "an act of violence and bloodshed" as he reveled more details of theassumed she would die, either being shot by "her pursuers" or burned alive, after the murderers set the grass she was hiding in alight to "try and drive her out".Queensland Police officers Constable Keely Brough and Constable Randall Kirk who survived the Wieambilla shooting.
"Mr Speaker, Monday, 12 December should have been an ordinary summer's day on the Western Downs... Instead, that quiet was shattered by the gunfire of an atrocity."A vicious and deadly ambush that has stolen lives, broken hearts, devastated a community and shocked our nation." The scene at a rural Queensland property where six people, including two police officers, were shot and killed.
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