Helen Haines was struck around three hours northeast of Melbourne on Monday in an incident being investigated by counter terrorism police.
Detectives from the Security Investigation Unit (SIU) have today charged the 43-year-old, from Tarrawingee, Victoria, who has been taken into custody.
He has since been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury and the Commonwealth offence of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official.
He will be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.
Media reports in Australia suggested surgeons were working to save the other leg.
Haines worked in nursing and midwifery and as an academic before she was elected to parliament as an independent in 2019 in the seat of Indi, which she retained in 2022 and 2025.
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