South Australian woman 'run over' by car involved in London terror attack
A woman who lives in South Australia was injured in the terrorist attacks in London overnight, the Attorney General has confirmed.
George Brandis told parliament in Canberra "an Australian permanent resident" had been hospitalised after the attack on Westminster and was being offered consular assistance.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the woman lives in South Australia.
The ABC’s Leigh Sales reports the woman, originally from Germany but now living in South Australia, had her foot run over by the car used in the attack.
Ms Sales said her information came from Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Mr Turnbull also praised the "act of heroism" of the British MP Tobias Ellwood who tried to resuscitate an injured police officer who subsequently died outside the British parliament.
The MP's brother Jon died in the Bali bombing in 2002.
"It was an attack on parliaments, freedom and democracy everywhere in the world," Mr Turnbull said.
Mr Turnbull said Australians should be reassured agencies are working "relentlessly and tirelessly to keep our people safe".
"We will never let the terrorists win. Not on the battlefield, not here at home, we will never change the way we live."
Labor leader Bill Shorten told parliament the opposition shared the government's commitment to security.
"We say to those who seek to spread fear, who shed blood to spread fear, you will not succeed," Mr Shorten said.
"You will not divide a people or a world determined and too strong to defeat your ideology of evil."
Earlier, a superior of the slain police officer named as a victim in the attack said he “expected to get home safe”.
The murdered officer, 48-year-old officer Keith Palmer is a husband and father with 15 years service in the police force.
He and three members of the public have died and about 40 people were injured in the Westminster terror attack.
The attacker was also killed by armed officers outside Parliament, taking the death toll to five.
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The news of PC Palmer’s death was confirmed by Scotland Yard's top anti-terror officer Mark Rowley.
Mr Rowley said: "One of those who died today was a police officer, PC Keith Palmer, a member of our Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.
"Keith was 48 and had 15 years' service, and was a husband and a father.
"He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen."
Reuters photographer Tony Melville said he heard a man hit the pavement below Westminster Bridge after the car ploughed through the bridge.
"I heard a thud... there was a man lying about 10 yards away from me," he told Reuters.
"There was a lot of blood coming from his head."
Mr Melville said about a dozen people were seen unconscious on or near the bridge.
Among the others injured on Westminster Bridge were three police officers, four students from Edge Hill University, three French youngsters on a school trip, five South Koreans and two Romanians.
An Australian was also among those who were locked inside Westminster Palace as an attack on the British parliament unfolded.
Catherine West, a British Labour MP who was born and raised in Sydney, first became aware something was wrong when Prime Minister Theresa May's four security guards "whisked her away" from the House of Commons chamber in what seemed a rather "heavy-handed way".
"I didn't hear anything, actually the only thing that was slightly unusual was when I saw the PM being whisked off like that but apart from that I didn't see anything," West told AAP.
