The former Australian of the year and family violence prevention advocate has called on the government to increase funding for gendered violence prevention and make it more consistent.
Former Australian of the Year and family violence prevention advocate Rosie Batty has called on the federal government to increase funding for gendered violence prevention and make it more consistent.
"It's really, really disappointing to see what a compassionate — well, what a necessary solution that we could find, and then to see that reversed was quite sad." "There's one hard truth staring all of us in the face – nearly everyone who has experienced violence in this country, mostly women and children, did so at the hands of a man."We must hold those perpetrators to account, yes, but we must also instil in our boys something better than this narrow and damaging definition we use to describe a 'real man'.
"Between many things I've grappled with since Luke's death, large among them is the feeling of absolute despair I carry, that – despite my campaigns, despite the hundreds of speeches I've given, despite marching, crying and shouting from the rooftops about family violence, despite a royal commission and millions of dollars of resources to prevent violence against women – women and children are still being murdered at an alarming rate in Australia.
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