When a Sydney woman faced court accused of sending death threats to multiple Australian politicians, some of her alleged targets had no idea they were on the list.
They only became aware through media reports on the case, a scenario described by one of the MPs as "surreal".
It was just one example of the increasingly routine nature of threats against elected representatives from across the political spectrum, with police now laying charges almost weekly.
In the wake of the alleged attack on Indi MP Helen Haines, for which the motive remains unknown, parliamentarians have detailed harrowing accounts of rape threats, intimidation, stalking and harassment.
One senior Labor MP told the ABC the "worst" threat they had received was from a man who sent an "itemised list" of times and places where he had seen the politician's children in public.
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