Australian Minister Urges Caution in Speculating on Police Killers’ Motives

Tributes are seen at Tara Police Station in Tara, Queensland, Australia on Dec. 14, 2022. Police have shot dead three people at a remote property on Queensland's Darling Downs after an ambush in which two officers and a bystander were killed. AAP Image/Jason O’Brien

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neill is calling for caution around speculation related to the motives of three individuals who ambushed and killed two young police officers amid ongoing conjecture that the trio were engaged in online radicalisation.

On Dec. 12, six individuals were killed in an incident that Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has called “the largest loss of police life” in years.