Man charged with attack on Australian MP as suspect's father says she is family friend

"I don't think I'm a hero. I think that I was just a person who had an opportunity to intervene in a safe-ish way."Others who helped "didn't even check for danger," Jefferies said. "The car was still on and they sat in front of a rolling car, that's not an exaggeration."In their statement, Victoria Police say a highway patrol unit was nearby at the time of the incident and "on scene" within eight seconds of the call coming through.As they announced the charges against the 43-year-old, they said they had searched a property in Tarawingee, nearly 60km (40 miles) from Wangaratta."At this stage it appears this is an isolated incident, and there are currently no other known threats connected to this matter," they said, adding officers would maintain a presence in Wangaratta.Haines won the seat of Indi as an independent in 2019, and has since become a prominent member of the crossbench, building rapport across Australia's increasingly divided political spectrum.