一名男子被控持双节棍威胁澳大利亚议员工作人员，此前几天另一名立法者遭一名男子反复驾车撞击，伤势危重。
A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car.
罗德·麦吉克 澳大利亚墨尔本 —— 警方周四表示，一名男子被控持双节棍威胁澳大利亚议员工作人员，此前几天另一名立法者遭一名男子反复驾车撞击，伤势危重。
ROD MCGUIRK MELBOURNE, Australia — A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday, days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car.
这些事件加剧了人们对女性政客安全的担忧，也引发了对安保的忧虑，在这个国家，议员与公众高度接触。
The incidents are heightening concerns about female politicians’ safety and raising concerns about security in a country where lawmakers are highly accessible to the public.
男子持双节棍闯入议员办公室被拘留 警方称，一名56岁男子周三进入西澳州政府部长汉娜·比兹利位于珀斯郊区的选区办公室，挥舞双节棍并进行口头威胁。比兹利当时不在办公室。
Man detained after entering lawmaker’s office with nunchucks Police say that a 56-year-old man entered Western Australian state government minister Hannah Beazley’s electorate office in suburban Perth on Wednesday, brandishing nunchucks and making verbal threats. Beazley wasn’t in the office at the time.
双节棍是一种武术武器，由两根棍棒或杆通过绳索或链条连接而成。
Nunchucks are a weapon used in martial arts consisting of two sticks or rods connected by a rope or chain.
该男子被拘留，并被控以可能引起恐惧的方式持械以及威胁实施非法行为。他已在警方羁押过夜，并将于周四晚些时候出庭受审，警方称。
The man was detained and charged with being armed in a way that may cause fear and with threatening to perform an unlawful act. He spent the night in police custody and will appear in a Perth court later Thursday, police said.
警方称，没有指控表明该男子的行为与周一在东海岸维多利亚州驾车撞击联邦议员海伦·海恩斯的司机有关。
There was no allegation the man’s behavior was connected to the driver who hit federal lawmaker Helen Haines with his car in the east coast state of Victoria on Monday.
海恩斯涉嫌遭袭者布伦丹·纳根特周三出庭受审，被控故意造成严重伤害、危险驾驶造成严重伤害以及伤害联邦官员。他未作认罪或不认罪答辩，继续被羁押。警方仍在寻找作案动机。
Haines’ alleged attacker, Brendan Nugent, appeared in a court on Wednesday charged with intentionally causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a federal official. He did not enter pleas and remains in custody. Police are still searching for a motive.
维多利亚州卫生部门的一份声明称，65岁的独立议员海恩斯周四仍在墨尔本一家医院处于危重状态，医生已为她截去了双腿。
Haines, a 65-year-old independent lawmaker, remained in critical condition on Thursday in a Melbourne hospital where surgeons have amputated both her legs, a health department statement said.
澳大利亚人担心暴力事件会威胁到那些愿意与民众保持密切联系的政治人物的传统。海恩斯（Haines）和比兹利（Beazley）这两起事件都引发了人们对女性政治人物安全的担忧；在澳大利亚议会中，女性议员的比例正在逐渐增加。目前，联邦议会中近50%的议员是女性，而安东尼·阿尔巴内塞（Anthony Albanese）总理的内阁成员中也大多数是女性。
Australians worry attacks threaten tradition of accessible politicians Both the Haines and Beazley incidents have raised concerns about the safety of female politicians, who account for a growing proportion of lawmakers in Australian parliaments. Just under 50% of federal lawmakers and a majority of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Cabinet are women. Australian lawmakers are some of the most accessible in the world and political violence has traditionally been rare.
澳大利亚的议员们以乐于与民众沟通、愿意倾听民众意见而闻名于世，政治暴力行为在澳大利亚历来较为罕见。然而，人们担心社交媒体所推动的日益激烈的公共辩论为女性议员带来了额外的风险。
But there are fears that increasingly toxic public debate driven by social media creates additional risks for elected women. Albanese said the fact that the threat to Beazley came so soon after the alleged attack on Haines was “just heartbreaking.”
阿尔巴内塞表示，比兹利遭遇威胁的时间距离海恩斯被袭击仅过了短短一段时间，这“实在令人心碎”。比兹利是阿尔巴内塞的前联邦同事金·比兹利（Kim Beazley）的女儿。
Beazley is the daughter of Albanese’s former federal colleague, Kim Beazley. “We can have debate and disagreement, but do it in a way without descending into the sort of violence that we have seen in too many parts of the world,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “It’s certainly not who we are as Australians.”
“我们可以进行辩论和分歧，但必须避免使用暴力手段——这种暴力行为在世界上许多地方都存在，”阿尔巴内塞对澳大利亚广播公司（Australian Broadcasting Corp.）说道，“这绝对不符合我们澳大利亚人的价值观。”本周，阿尔巴内塞为他的中左翼工党（Labor Party）中的女性议员们参加了一场在线安全会议，会上安全机构讨论了针对她们的性别歧视性威胁。
Albanese attended an online security briefing this week for women lawmakers in his center-left Labor Party. Security agencies addressed misogynistic threats directed at them.
无论是男性还是女性联邦议员，都认为女性在网络上遭受的辱骂和攻击最为严重。
Male and female federal lawmakers agree that women are facing the worst of the online abuse.
“人们当然感到担忧，”阿尔巴内塞说，“如今一些极具攻击性的行为已经变得司空见惯，这种情况在几十年前是不存在的。”比兹利表示，她的员工们虽然受到了惊吓，但都安然无恙。汉娜·比兹利（Hannah Beazley）回忆说，当时有男子闯入她的选区办公室要求见她。
“Of course people are concerned. They’re anxious,” Albanese said. “There has been a normalization of behavior that can be very aggressive in a way that wasn’t happening a couple of decades ago.”Beazley says staff were rattled but safe Hannah Beazley said she was in the state parliament when the man entered her electorate office demanding to see her.
比兹利还提到，她的两名工作人员也受到了惊吓，但他们都躲在了安全屏风后面，因此没有受到伤害。
Beazley said two members of her staff had been “rattled,” but had remained safe behind a security screen.
“我们完全不知道那名男子的动机是什么，”她在周三对记者们表示。
“We don’t know his motives at all,” she told reporters on Wednesday.
总督萨姆·莫斯廷是第二位担任英国君主在澳大利亚代表的女性，她表示，周三在新闻发布会上与海恩斯的丈夫菲尔·海恩斯一同发言后，她在社交媒体上遭到辱骂。
Governor-General Sam Mostyn who is only the second woman to ever serve as the British monarch’s representative in Australia, said that she was abused on social media for speaking at a press conference on Wednesday alongside Haines’ husband Phil Haines.
莫斯廷对澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）表示：“就像我们社会各个领域中挺身而出担任任何职位的女性一样，我们面临着一种独特且有害的攻击形式。”
“Like any woman who has stepped up into any position across any part of our society, there is a unique and pernicious form of attack that comes our way,” Mostyn told ABC.
她补充道：“全国的女性都知道，这种攻击中有某些东西是专门针对女性的，针对我们的性别，而且往往恶毒且令人发指。”
“Women across the country know that there are certain things that are reserved for women in that attack that go to our gender and they are often vicious and just despicable,” she added.