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Man involved in car fire at Australian Christian Lobby still in serious but stable condition five days after suffering burns
By Clare Sibthorpe
The man involved in the car fire outside the Australian Christian Lobby's Canberra headquarters remains in a serious but stable condition five days after presenting himself to hospital with serious burns.
The 35-year-old was airlifted from Canberra Hospital early Thursday evening to Sydney's Concord Hospital, one of two adult specialist burns units in New South Wales.
The van that drove into the Australian Christian Lobby's headquarters and exploded in CanberraCredit:Lyle Shelton, Twitter
The man walked five kilometres to Canberra Hospital on Wednesday night after parking a van and igniting several gas cylinders outside the headquarters of the ACL building in Deakin.
His condition improved from critical to serious but stable before he was transferred to Sydney.
On Monday morning, a NSW health spokeswoman said there had been no improvements since.
ACL managing director Lyle Shelton was quick to link the incident to political controversy over his organisation's stances on same-sex marriage and the Safe Schools initiative, setting his sights on "extreme left" politicians who have criticised them.
Police said they were conducting a thorough investigation into previous threats to the ACL, despite dismissing political, religious or ideological motivation.