ICAN Australia staff and board are shocked and deeply saddened by yesterday’s attack on Dr Helen Haines MP.

Dr Haines is a highly respected senior health professional and a shining inspiration of integrity, compassion, humanity and wisdom working on behalf of her north-east Victorian community in our nation’s parliament.

We greatly value her active support for peace as co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

This awful event is in complete conflict with Helen’s values and her public life as a champion of inclusion and respect.

We are all hoping that she will make a full and speedy recovery and we are sending her our best wishes at this difficult time.

Helen Haines MP, with members of a visiting delegation of Pacific and Australian Nuclear Survivors, Canberra 2026 (Credit: Dimity Hawkins).