Unfortunately I find this article to be true.
Only just today two policemen were killed, and a third injured in the rural Victorian high country.
There's been a huge spike in cookers/sovereign citizens using violence through firearms.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/victoria-police-incid...
This happened in Wieambilla Queensland in 2022. This story made international news. The policemen and women were executed. Similar story, police perform a welfare check, are shot on sight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieambilla_shootings
The assumed suspects from todays shooting are well known to the local community, for all the wrong reasons. Notorious 'sovereign citizens'. More information in the Reddit post below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1n09tef/victoria...