The murder of 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst has shocked the country and leading experts say urgent action is needed to stop family violence.
Former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty has urged the Minns government to hold a royal commission into domestic violence, as the federal family and sexual violence commissioner convenes crisis talks after the alleged murder of Molly Ticehurst.
Batty, whose son was murdered by his father in 2014, said authorities in her home state of Victoria had learned a raft of lessons from its own royal commission on family violence, and NSW would, too, as most domestic violence services were run by state government agencies and state-based groups. “I don’t think there is a need for a national royal commission because we are less than two years into the 10-year national plan, but NSW could benefit from holding a royal commission into domestic violence,” Batty told this masthead.“Each state has varying standards of response … people working in family violence will say that Victoria is vastly different to the rest of Australia in the way it does things. So I do think NSW should give serious consideration to it.
“A safer system for victim-survivors in critical. We cannot bail our way out of sexual, domestic or family violence,” the organisation said on Thursday.
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