Police Hope to Resume Land Where Officers Were Ambushed, Killed

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

The remote bushland property where two police officers were ambushed and killed could be used as a retreat or training centre if the Queensland government clears the way and ensures it never falls into the hands of conspiracy theorists.

Constables Matthew Arnold, 26 and Rachel McCrow, 29, died in a hail of gunfire after pulling up to the rural property at Wieambilla, three hours west of Brisbane, on Dec. 12.