Is anyone really surprised? Albanese's office circulated a dirt sheet to journalists baselessly raising questions about Helen Haines' integrity after she criticised a $6million government grant allocated to the Prime Minister's local golf course. Albanese's team sent the document to select parliamentary press gallery reporters about a month before Haines was seriously injured in an alleged attack outside her Wangaratta office on Monday afternoon. Haines was airlifted to Melbourne's The Alfred Hospital and is in a critical condition after Brendan Nugent, 43, allegedly rammed the MP against her car with his Toyota LandCruiser, reversed, and drove into her a second time. In the wake of the incident, Albanese called for a lowering of the political temperature, praised Haines's integrity and issued a warning against unjustified attacks on politicians' motives. 'I do always agree that her motives are good,' the Prime Minister told ABC's 7:30 on Monday night. But just weeks ago, Albanese's office circulated a document - bearing the name of the PM's deputy director of communications - that raises questions about the standard of the government's own contributions to political debate in Australia. The document, obtained by the Daily Mail, attempted to smear Haines by cataloguing her own funding requests for her electorate and asking if she may have had personal connections to recipients of Federal government funding. For instance, it asked whether Haines had received undeclared wine or food from local businesses, held business interests, received political donations or had personal associations with businesses that could benefit from government tourism funding.