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Treasurer Jim Chalmers spoke with ABC RN just a moment ago, and described learning about the shooting in real time on live television:

It was a bit surreal for me because I was live on TV when these events were unfolding … and we weren’t sure in real time that there had been a shooter, that there had been an assassination attempt, but it became very clear obviously in the aftermath [of] that interview just how serious this assassination attempt was. And we’re relieved that former President [Donald] Trump is okay, our hearts go out to the family of the man whose life was lost in the crowd.

Now it’s about what happened yesterday in Pennsylvania, it’s about January 6, but it goes beyond that as well. I think a lot of people around the world are worried about how ugly and dangerous politics has become, and I share those concerns. The democratic world needs to step back from the normalisation of extremism in politics. Democracy is supposed to help moderate and mend our differences, not magnify and horrify them.

If we make it normal that you can use violence to resolve political disputes, then we won’t have a democracy very quickly … If it can happen in the United States, it can happen anywhere.

And so it’s critically important at a time like this that everybody responds in a calm and measured way to ensure that there’s no further escalation.

But also because even here in Australia, we shouldn’t be complacent about these threats. While it’s true – we’ve got very different gun safety regulations, and everyone supports that – as you pointed out in your analysis this morning, they also have those strong laws in the United Kingdom and two members of parliament in UK in the last decade have been murdered.

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