IF we can not protect our first responders from assault like this we should not tel them to walk in to danger for us.
The center voter, not lefty firmly thinks the courts habitually, let us and police down, this crime must be stopped and mandatory six months first offence will do it

Sorry for hogging the thread but need to get this off my chest, last year a 21st birthday party was held near a rail crossing, the birthday boy was run over by a train,will dancing on the line, the whole party stoned the engine, forcing them to hide, AMBOs first on scene? stoned and unable to leave locked van, Police same thing, it took near an hour before Ambos could try to help that man, no one was charged with anything.I arrived on scene to be stopped as train was still on crossing, everyone there was traumatised, may still be

Hey Belly,
One thing I always wonder these days?
Why isn't there any footage?
Everyone's got a phone these days.
Do they not want us to see what's really happening?

'News' in 2018 is more like 'what news?'

"Good evening viewers, we've got some amazing breaking news just in this hour, unfortunately we can't tell you anything about it because we think that reporting the facts might be too divisive, so we've created a 'generic' version of this story for you instead. We hope you enjoy our socialist news editing."

Whatever it was seems serious enough to me, but I can't really make any kind of valid judgement without some kind of footage or more background information of what actually happened.

'One thing I always wonder these days?
Why isn't there any footage?'

certainly don't want us to see the Africans and Islanders beating each other up and driving cars into packs of people while Peter Van Onslen tweets from his comfy resturant how safe Melbourne is. No wonder the abc love him so much. It no wonder people need to get their news elsewhere despite billions going to the your abc for hiding the truth from the public.

Seriously, people? Two violent attacks on ambos, and your biggest concern is that you didn't get to see a video of them being set upon? Sometimes you can only shake your head.

//"Good evening viewers, we've got some amazing breaking news just in this hour, unfortunately we can't tell you anything about it because we think that reporting the facts might be too divisive//

Yeah, some of us still get most of our news from print media. You might be too much of a 21st century digital boy to believe this, but it is possible to report facts without the use of videos.

Footage would help identify the suspects so that they can be charged with manslaughter (and in the case of those who stone trains, attempted murder).