HoneyBunOne
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Nano second would probably do it. I think it just has to be a conscious decision to do it, regardless of how far in advance the decision was made.I'm not sure impulse falls under the definition of murder. Murder is all about intent. However how long would one have to have the intention for? A month, a week, a day, a nanosecond?
Murder in Australian law - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Also, the first line of the link you posted says this:
"In Australia, murder is a criminal offence where a person, by a voluntary act or omission, causes the death of another person with either intent to kill, intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, or with reckless indifference to human life."
Those last 5 words seem to me that even if murder was not your intent, but your actions could be seen to have death as a possible and likely consequence, then it can be called murder. So I guess you'd have to make a decision, even in the moment, to do action X, Y or Z, knowing that those actions can and possibly/probably will result in death.
I think there's a fine line when it comes to the actions that can be called murder instead of manslaughter. In this case, police have vehemently called this a murder.