The tragic events of the past week have shown Australians who we are – and it’s a long way from our image of ourselves | Julianne Schultz

How can we attempt to understand the climate in which the hideous alleged attack on Helen Haines occurred? Immediately after news of the alleged attack on Helen Haines was revealed, the prime minister and others were quick to say , this is not who we Australians are, this is not the way we behave . The data from the Australian federal police, Asio and the experience of individual MPs suggested this may in fact be what a disappointingly significant number of us have become over the past decade.