Hundreds honoured in Wieambilla shooting bravery awards Hundreds have been honoured for their bravery during the Wieambilla shootings and its aftermath including the two officers who survived the fatal ambush. AAP · Apr 29
Wieambilla police shootings property listed for sale for $190,000 Son of Nathaniel and Stacey Train says he is ‘hoping for a quick sale to someone who will be respectful of the property, considering its history’ The Guardian - AU · Feb 26
Key Wieambilla finding rejected in 'tough' gun reforms A state government has come under fire for rejecting a key Wieambilla inquest finding and for reforms that "fortified the weakest gun laws in Australia". AAP · Feb 10
Two Australian police officers were killed in an ambush. It was deemed terrorism – but an inquest says otherwise Six people died during the shootings at a remote property in Wieambilla, Queensland. A coroner says a family’s shared paranoid delusions drove their attack The Guardian - AU · Nov 21, 2025
Wieambilla police shooting not ‘terrorism’ but driven by Train family’s shared ‘delusions’, Queensland coroner finds Coroner’s report into deaths of Rachel McCrow, Matthew Arnold and Alan Dare released following five-day inquest The Guardian - AU · Nov 21, 2025
Wieambilla shootings: coroner to deliver findings into what police called Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack Motive of the Trains, who shot dead two police officers and a neighbour before their deaths, expected to be addressed on Friday The Guardian - AU · Nov 20, 2025
Why are police a target for sovereign citizen violence? As the tragic events evolve in Porepunkah, northeast Victoria, media outlets have reported the alleged shooter, Dezi Freeman, is known to be a “sovereign citizen”. The Conversation · Aug 27, 2025
Long path to 'rare and devastating' Wieambilla shooting Four constables in rural Queensland had no idea they would be ambushed by two brothers with rifles and delusions of police being demons wearing "meat suits". AAP · Aug 31, 2024
Police never needed to attend Wieambilla, families say The families of two police constables killed in rural Queensland say there was no reason for the officers to attend the call-out that led to a fatal shooting. AAP · Aug 29, 2024
Afternoon Update: Wieambilla massacre victim’s final goodbye; Qantas profit down; and the PM’s joke caught on camera On the final day of Wieambilla inquest hearings the coroner has heard emotional statements on behalf of victims’ families The Guardian - AU · Aug 29, 2024
Hundreds of 'shots fired' reports before cop killings Police recorded hundreds of "shots fired" incidents around a rural property in the years before six people were killed, a coroner has heard. AAP · Aug 14, 2024
Afternoon Update: Raygun breaks out kangaroo hop; Wieambilla massacre was ‘suicide by cop’; and horses prove their intelligence Fellow Olympians cheer breaker Rachael Gunn as she joyfully re-enacts some of her viral moves The Guardian - AU · Aug 12, 2024
Surrender negotiations met with gunfire at Wieambilla Recordings of a police negotiator calling on cop shooters to put down their weapons have been played at an inquest into the deaths on a rural Qld property. AAP · Aug 7, 2024
Radicalised killers used military-style defences to force police retreat during Wieambilla siege Train family laid series of ‘tactically sound’ obstacles to gain advantage in shootout, coronial inquest hears The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 2024
AAP · Aug 5, 2024 Police fired after talks failed: Wieambilla inquest Police fired their first shot at three cop killers after trying to negotiate with them for more than an hour at a remote Queensland property, an inquest heard.
AAP · Aug 5, 2024 Heavily armed cops sent if dangers known, inquest told Police would have sent heavily armed officers to serve an arrest warrant at Wieambilla if they were told at least one person present was "incredibly dangerous".
The Guardian - AU · Aug 2, 2024 ‘Running for her life’: how police rescued trapped officer from Wieambilla ambush Rescue team members tell inquest they devised a code to guide Const Keely Brough to safety, drawing gunfire as they blocked property entrance
AAP · Jul 31, 2024 Trapped shooting cop's rescue risked by 'blackspot' The police commander responding to a deadly shooting in rural Queensland was unable to order a rescue mission for an officer in danger due to phone blackspots.
AAP · Jul 30, 2024 Wife 'heard husband shot dead' on phone to triple zero A woman was on the phone to triple zero when hearing what she now believes was the gunshot that killed her husband coming from their neighbours' rural property.
AAP · Jul 29, 2024 Outgunned cop had 'no alternative' but to flee ambush An inquest has been told a police officer had "no alternative" but to run after being ambushed by men with high-powered rifles at a rural property.
AAP · May 22, 2024 US man linked to Qld police shootings pleads not guilty An American allegedly posted videos saying the family who killed police officers in the Wieambilla shootings were "martyrs" in a battle with demonic entities.
AAP · May 20, 2024 Bid to keep police shooting details 'secret' from probe Extremely sensitive police material may be kept from an inquest into the Wieambilla shootings that claimed six lives including two officers back in 2022.
The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2024 Australian government pledges $161.3m for national firearms register Attorney general cites 2022 Wieambilla massacre as ‘catalyst’ for establishing register which will provide near real-time ownership and risk information
AAP · Jan 30, 2024 Qld police share evidence on alleged shooting supporter Evidence gathered by Australian authorities into the December 2022 fatal shooting of two police officers at Wieambilla has been provided to a US court case.
The Guardian - AU · Jan 18, 2024 Wieambilla shooting: Donald Day allegedly had buckets of ammunition and threatened FBI agents, US court told Arizona conspiracy theorist faces fresh weapons charges and is accused of threatening five special agents during his arrest in late 2023