Detectives said they were speaking to the man's partner and searching rugged, forested terrain near the small town of Porepunkah, in the northeast of Victoria state.
Police say the man -- described by local media as a radicalised conspiracy theorist -- is heavily armed, has bush survival skills and knows the area well.
Police were in contact with the man's partner, had searched a number of properties, and believed he was still in the area, Barrett said.
Anyone harbouring the man would be prosecuted for committing a criminal offence, Barrett warned.
“It is really difficult terrain. It is complex terrain,“ Victoria police superintendent Brett Kahan said.
Police fired at the suspect but apparently did not wound him, they said.
Challenging manhunt
Australia’s The Age newspaper said Freeman was a self-professed “sovereign citizen”, referring to a movement that falsely believes it is not subject to laws passed by the government.
While fighting a speeding penalty in a Melbourne court, Freeman referred to police as “frigging Nazis”, “Gestapo”, and “terrorist thugs”, according to a copy of the judge’s ruling last year.
The latest deaths listed in a national memorial to fallen police showed three officers were killed on duty in separate incidents in 2023, including one by gunshot.
Six people were killed in that incident, including two police officers. Police later blamed the family's fundamentalist Christian beliefs for what was termed a terrorist attack.
A ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons has been in place in Australia since a 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in which a lone gunman killed 35 people. - AFP
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