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...

It's most unfortunate and sad when shootings happen esp where fatalities are involved.

However it all depends on how situations are handled. Sending unsuspecting police to do a welfare check - for instance when another state's police had already sensitised / inflamed someone who wanted to be left alone ... nutters need to be handled with care and / or special tactics used to subdue.