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
US man jailed over links to police shooting deaths Months before an Australian family fatally shot two police officers and a neighbour, investigators found they chatted online to a US man about extreme views. AAP · Feb 13
Timeline: Bondi beach terror attack becomes Australia’s worst mass shooting in three decades Mass attacks have been rare in the wake of stringent gun controls brought in after the Port Arthur massacre of 1996 The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2025
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
Christian conspiracy theorists who killed police officers ‘shared delusional disorder’ All three believed the world was about to end in accordance with Christian teachings The Independent UK · 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 police 'woefully' outgunned in sniper ambush The families of two police killed in the Wieambilla shootings say they are disappointed in the coroner's findings into the tragedy that claimed six lives. AAP · Nov 20, 2025
Families await findings from deadly Wieambilla attack A coroner is set to deliver his findings into the deadly Wieambilla shootings that killed six people including two police officers and a good Samaritan. AAP · Nov 17, 2025
US man linked to Wieambilla killings makes plea deal A United States-based conspiracy theorist linked to the deadly ambush shootings at Wieambilla has accepted a plea deal after agreeing to watered-down charges. AAP · Oct 10, 2025
'Senseless, evil': families reflect on fatal shootings The families of two police officers ambushed at a rural property have tearfully remembered the second anniversary of the shootings that killed six people. AAP · Dec 12, 2024
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
Lawyer blames psychiatric disorder shared by 3 Australian Christian extremists for fatal siege A lawyer has told a coroner that three Christian extremists would probably not have fatally shot two police officers and a bystander in an ambush on a rural Australian property and wounded a third officer two years ago if they had not shared the same psychiatric disorder The Independent UK · 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
Health 'apocalypse' aided teacher's path to cop killing A teacher who respected police was aided in becoming a delusional cop killer by a personal "apocalypse" in the form of a heart attack, a coroner has heard. AAP · Aug 11, 2024
AAP · Aug 9, 2024 Off-grid killers: lots of toilet paper and Faraday box A glimpse into how cop killers Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train lived has been revealed for the first time at an inquest into the December 2022 shootings.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 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
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".
AAP · Aug 2, 2024 'Hero' officers rescued colleagues, retrieved bodies Police officers have described the harrowing experience of rescuing one colleague and retrieving the bodies of two others after an attack on a rural property.
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 Families vow to endure inquest to honour slain officers The families of two officers shot dead in Queensland say they will honour their memory at an inquest, calling for any reforms to be introduced immediately.
AAP · Jun 21, 2024 Slain officers' families want former top cop at inquest An inquest into a shooting that claimed six lives including those of two officers should hear from a former police commissioner, say victims' families.
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.
The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2023 Wieambilla shooting arrest: Donald Day Jr’s day of reckoning at an Arizona Dairy Queen Day’s friends had shot dead two police who came to their Queensland property. The FBI was taking no such chances