October 24, 2026 — 5:00pm

Independent and minor party MPs say their staff are being inundated with threats and abuse being sent to their offices, with some resorting to private fundraising to employ enough advisers to share the significant workload.

Politicians have been forced to turn off their office’s phone lines, order staff not to review constituent emails, and send their employees home to recuperate, amid a deluge of vitriol.

MPs Mehreen Faruqi, Nicolette Boele, Sophie Scamps and Fatima Payman.

Threats against federal politicians are at an all-time high, with MPs on alert after the shock attack on Helen Haines on Monday.…