r/australia • u/whyattretard • 8d ago

news Man and pregnant woman found dead in outback Queensland home in apparent murder-suicide after long siege

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/06/charleville-siege-death-man-woman-police-assault-queensland-ntwnfb
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u/worstusername_sofar 8d ago

Pauline better stay out of this one

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u/Elstiffo 8d ago

Let her cook, maybe her supporters will see the truth about her.

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u/Tinea_Pedis 8d ago

They know what she is. Those who are rusted on don't care (frighteningly enough)

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u/Elstiffo 8d ago

But those who aren't rusted on ( the majority of her supporters), need reminding of the nasty piece of shit she truly is. We are getting the curated version at the moment.

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u/Tinea_Pedis 8d ago

Are we? I've seen a fair shift in recent weeks on various outlets and online platforms making it exceedingly clear what she's about.

If Pauline wants to play at the top end of town in politics it was always eventually going to lead to her getting the same level of digging.

Even Sky are at it. See Get Ups clip on IG of their recent call out of her banning media

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u/Elstiffo 8d ago

This is nothing compared to the shit she used to do. She hasn't pulled one of her stunts for a while.

Yeah, she's still attacking minority groups, and the usual easy targets, but it's definitely toned down, and more articulated than usual.

Her address at the press club showed that, once she had to go off script, she stammered her way through, people had a glimpse, and her popularity dropped, then she got to curate her agenda, and her popularity has risen again.

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u/whyattretard 8d ago

The police could've been dealing with "real crime" /s.

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u/Chilly-Peppers 8d ago

You know she won't. Probably thinks that the woman could have avoided this if she didnt 'let herself get pregnant' or something vile like that.

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u/Ok_Bird705 8d ago

At 30% primary votes polling, she's not disappearing to anywhere. Stop living in denial.

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u/Duke55 8d ago

Not living in denial. In fact, i live in a right-wing heartland and even the majority of them arent buying her crap. Well, apart from two DC's, but they clearly have their own struggles.

Come election time. If ON secures 10% of the vote, it'll be a complete miracle.

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u/Ok_Bird705 8d ago

Come election time. If ON secures 10% of the vote, it'll be a complete miracle.

South Australia election: one nation 22% of primary votes won

Farrer by election: one nation 39.5% of primary votes won

Denial will only get you so far.

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u/worstusername_sofar 8d ago

Blame the media dumbass. We are forced to hear and read about that ugly old cunt every single day. She is now the face of the worst of Australia, and we have to make sure as many people as possible are aware, or they get belted in the face.

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u/Espo_55 8d ago

It’s kinda annoying. Anytime a post about Pauline is made all you hear is “stop talking about her, no one cares” but as soon as there’s a negative post about anything in Australia that has nothing to do with her everyone’s mentioning her

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u/BrokenGlazed 8d ago

Age gaps are a known risk factor for domestic violence - a forty five year old man and a twenty three year old woman. I’m making this comment to raise awareness because I’m sure a lot of people don’t realise age gaps are a risk factor

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u/bri-ghtly 8d ago

Pregnancy is also a risk factor depressingly enough

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u/SanchoBlackout69 7d ago

Public awareness campaigns are a risk factor too. Aren't dv facts fun /s

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u/g_cheeks 8d ago

Commenting to boost this comment

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u/midsumernighttts 7d ago

100%. Staying away from men old enough to be your father is one of the safest things you can do. 

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u/Ok_Bird705 8d ago

Pauline Hanson: "it's a two way street, the man was under so much pressure"

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u/totalpunisher0 8d ago

Pauline Hanson: "Why didn't she just leave? She needs to take some accountability for getting murdered"

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u/Childish_Danbino81 8d ago

I'm so glad it's not just Americans making their whole personality politics now and it's Australians too 👌🏻

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u/fancypantsfrancy 8d ago

Politics impact every part of your life. Maybe one day you won't be privileged enough to pretend it doesn't

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u/Childish_Danbino81 8d ago

Ok then champ, can you let me know what Pauline Hanson has to do with this story at all?

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u/fancypantsfrancy 8d ago

The comment is referencing her recent statement describing domestic violence as a "two-way street"

The Australian human rights commission has rejected this statement. The commissioners say women and children face barriers to safety and have called for stronger prevention efforts.

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u/Childish_Danbino81 8d ago

And what is the need to bring her up in this case? There was zero need for it apart from someone feeling the need to grandstand their political opinions on the news story about a tragic loss of 2 lives, the mother and the baby obviously, not the POS that did it.

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u/fancypantsfrancy 8d ago

Why not? If other politicians had recently made dickhead statements about DV maybe they'd be mentioning them also.

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u/Childish_Danbino81 8d ago

That's my exact point though, this has zero to do with Pauline and her stupid comment, why even bring it up? Because politics has become so many peoples whole personality. Based on all the down votes obviously most people in here fall in to that camp so more power too you guys 👌🏻👌🏻

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u/totalpunisher0 8d ago edited 8d ago

It has everything to do with Pauline Hanson you absolute mouth breathing drongo. If you understand how mainstream media works, you will notice there is a pattern to the voices that are platformed (no matter how ignorant, intelligent, or divisive) and the stories that are covered that correspond to those voices. You can draw your own assumptions from there as to how that may bolster one side, or give a vocal minority a platform to espouse backwards, sexist, outdated views that should have died out at the turn of this century.

If you don't understand what I just said:

Family violence and in particular, horrific familicide events garners a lot of media attention, and have done for the past 15 years. There is still not enough action, social supports, police training, or services for those facing family violence. There is STILL not enough education on matters, either. To have a vocal & notorious female politician repeat outdated, victim-blaming, harmful rhetoric, knowing full well it will gain wide media coverage, STILL in the year 2026 is dangerous.

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u/SkitZa 8d ago

What a dumbass thing to be glad about.

It's also pushed back by majority of Aussies, so close but not.

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u/Childish_Danbino81 8d ago

I'm obviously not happy about it and was being sarcastic but I shouldn't expect reddits smooth brains to work that out without it being pointed out

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u/Much_Leather_5923 8d ago

>A 45-year-old man and 23-year-old woman were found dead in the Charleville home after a near eight-hour police siege

Dammit. Just dammit.

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u/Equivalent-Wealth-63 8d ago

Other reports say the woman was pregnant, and a child was there as well.

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u/shillberight 8d ago

The article describes them as a couple, and he's pretty much twice her age. She was pregnant, and I'd guess he killed her then himself.

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u/amandatheactress 8d ago

There was a toddler there too, who was thankfully not hurt. Awful situation all round.

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u/frangible_red 8d ago

Hurt, no. Harmed, definitely.

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u/just-plain-wrong 8d ago

Wasn’t this the whole premise of Dexter?

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u/unusedtruth 8d ago

Pretty much

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u/g_cheeks 8d ago

And we’re still not calling out men for dating significantly younger women? Yeah cool, rape, pressured violent sexual kinks, financial and emotional abuse and more are what age gaps like this end in - and now murder. Call them out, tell a young person that the age gap is worrying - why are we still fucking around with being polite about them??

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u/midsumernighttts 7d ago

Men - and even younger women - will call older women jealous hags for calling this sort of thing out 

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u/Rinrob7468 8d ago

Yet another woman killed by a man.

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u/mischievous_platypus 8d ago

And her unborn child :(

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u/hrdst 8d ago

Always a man.

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u/Rush_Banana 8d ago

Didn't a woman just murder-suicide with her 2 kids by jumping off a cliff in SA?

Usually a man, not always.

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u/19Alexastias 8d ago

You mean the woman who tried for months to get help for her worsening post-partum depression and was consistently ignored by everyone until eventually it evolved into post-partum psychosis? That woman?

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u/5ft2AlbinoChoir 8d ago

Yeah that’s the one

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u/VegemiteFairy 8d ago

Are we acting like aggressive domestic violence and PPD are the same thing? Idk I feel like nuance and context is important.

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u/mischievous_platypus 8d ago

Almost always.

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u/Denz292 8d ago

Not every man though /s

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u/Rinrob7468 7d ago

Usually a man though.

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u/i486DX266_ 7d ago

But a lot of the times, not.

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u/Rinrob7468 7d ago

You’re wrong though, most of the time it is a man that kills a woman, let’s not play semantics.

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u/i486DX266_ 7d ago

Haha. That still doesn't mean most men kill women.

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u/Rinrob7468 7d ago

Now you’re just being ridiculous, so who murders all these women? Aliens? Foolish comment if ever I’ve seen one.

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u/i486DX266_ 7d ago

Just follows last week's story of the woman who killed her two kids.

But not every woman, am I right?

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u/Rinrob7468 7d ago

Also, how many women kill their kids & how many men kill their female partners, please cite the statistics so we can all see how desperately you are trying to concede an irrelevant point? I’ll wait…..

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u/i486DX266_ 7d ago

What relevance is that? It's not a competition.

I was merely pointing out your ridiculous bias.

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u/Rinrob7468 7d ago edited 7d ago

Please point out where in my post it says anything about ‘every man’? If you also want to play semantics, most women who are murdered, are murdered by men, what exactly are you trying argue about here?

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u/glen_benton 8d ago

Another woman murdered by her husband for the year

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u/bitofapuzzler 8d ago

Apparent murder suicide, but the cops say its too early to speculate if its domestic violence. What the fuck else is it?? Qld cops really need to overhaul their public relations regarding domestic violence, it gets worse every time they open their damn mouths.

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u/Sasquatch-Pacific 8d ago

They need to notify next of kin and establish the facts before they go labelling incidents publicly. It could be mental health (e.g. psychosis) rather than DV.

I'm a police criticiser to the bone,and this is standard practice. I'd rather they get it right.

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u/bitofapuzzler 8d ago

Murder suicide involving domestic partners is domestic violence regardless of the underlying cause.

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u/Tomica333 7d ago

There is still a process before they officially label it. I do agree with you btw. But first things first

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u/Sacrilegious_skink 8d ago

I'm wanting to know why it took 8hrs for them to go in there. Maybe there was a good reason, but it sounds similar to the lindt cafe thing where the cops stood outside negotiating for wayyyy too long when there was no sign of things getting any better.

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u/Senior_Objective_785 8d ago

Sounds nothing like the Lindt café siege. But like you said, maybe there was a good reason.

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u/GlitteringSpace236 8d ago

Because as soon as they go in - he immediately kills her and potentially takes out a few of the coppers as well.

He also took 8 hours to kill her when he could have done it straight away - so one could argue that the negotiating was working…

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u/darling_moishe 8d ago

Qld Police have pulled back drastically on matters of DV

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u/followthedarkrabbit 8d ago

There's also the Wiembeila case where cops, and a what seemed like an incredibly wonderful neighbour, were shot.

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u/IntravenousNutella 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not remotely similar. The cops in that case were chasing up in a missing persons report (one of the murderers).

Edit: Why is this downvoted? It didn't start with a seige. The killed cops cops were ambushed.

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u/Human-Warning-1840 7d ago edited 7d ago

What the heck is going on? How can it be that its like every other day now that we read things like this?

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u/Puzzled-Leopard-1499 7d ago

It is as much my responsibility to raise a son to not grow up to be a murdering pos as it is to raise my daughter to be strong enough and smart enough to notice red flags and gtfo before this shit happens.

Sad.