The issue returned to the spotlight after an opposition MP suggested Small Business Minister Anne Aly be ‘stoned in the square’.
Threats against public officeholders have continued to rise this year, according to the Australian Federal Police.
The AFP received 1,067 reports of harassing, nuisance, offensive, and threatening behaviour towards high office holders, federal parliamentarians, electorate offices, and protected establishments.
This is a 12% increase on the 951 received in 2024-25. It was a 60% increase of the previous year.
A spokesperson for the AFP told The Mandarin every report is taken seriously.
“The AFP continues to see threats and reporting of communications deemed as harassing, nuisance, or offensive in nature directed towards federal parliamentarians, foreign dignitaries and electorate offices,” they said.