'Full of despair': Rosie Batty calls for more leadership on family violence

"This unspeakable act of violence should give pause for all our elected leaders to think deeply about their leadership on this epidemic," Ms Batty said, adding she was "deeply affected" by the event.

"This horrific violence is beyond our imagination, comprehension and understanding. How could this happen? And yet it does. And it keeps on happening." In her statement, the 2015 Australian of the Year said the the family law court system was a "critical challenge" to be addressed. "The decisions that are made through this system impact on the wellbeing of children dramatically and have the potential of placing children at further risk of harm or enabling them to reach their potential without fear and trauma impacting their development.

Go Rosie! That labor government in Queensland has blood on its hands! They’ve done nothing for women and children who live in fear of monsters. Time for a snap election to get rid of Ana and Jackie for some much needed leadership on this issue

Stop peddling this crap. Where is professionalism?

Women are decapitated, raped, dismembered disemboweled, strangled & pornographized on screens/media, yet this is a socially culturally accepted form of ‘entertainment’ These everyday occurrences reinforce the normalisation of misogyny VAW & Femicide YES! perpetrated by men..

Guys are you following the twitter feed of recent order of Australia recipient thebettinaarndt HannahClarke

Scotty from marketing - 'Making Australia safe for Australians'. Time to start applying this slogan to problems closer to home rather than trying to distract everybody by the mythology of terrorism potentially causing the most harm to Australians.

The elephant in the room is invisible! Pair bonding & the institution of marriage is irretrievably broken! Anything with a failure rate as high as “marriage” would cease to exist. Tens of thousands make a living in the divorce & dv industries! Time for a serious rethink!

My thought is that people with an AVO against them must wear a bracelet corresponding with a bracelet worn by the person who instigated the AVO. If the person gets within 10kms the bracelet beeps and they are able to ring a dedicated police number.

Their feral screeching and hissing at men is the thing that holds their cause back most.

She has the right issue and all the wrong solutions. Its time to dump the 2 million AVOs and revert to criminal restraining orders that are enforced.

FFS another hoax crisis. They seem to be hyperboling each other for the most funding

earthma23 .........Along with the LNP!

Batty is a feminists who is seeking fame and fortune from other victims, she a scab! Read the police report about Batty , she was told to remove her son and she didn't.

FatherBob thank you, Rosie xo

I’m with Rosie. I am so sad. Where does it start or stop. Is a push or shove where it starts?

They had the answer in '1984' a camera device in every home making any privacy impossible. That would do it.

Always has been. Still is !!!

Domestic violence goes both ways. The more we forget this, the more skewed the availability of support is.

No excuse but there is a reason. That is what the officer was trying to say

Richard_D_Boyle The voice of reason domesticviolence RosieBatty

When a woman hates a man is not equal to when a man loves a woman. Nobody should flame gender war campaign. Men and women must lovingly work together to solve the family problems. Peace and Love!

The abhorrent murder of HannahClarke & children defies comprehension but don’t think for one minute leadership, education or funding will fix/eradicate these crimes-no no no! Can we better protect the vulnerable? Yes & that should be our focus not reactively scream for action

luciemorrismarr Be prepared for the onslaught of the RWNJs like thebettinaarndt calling you “virtue-signalling” any minute now oh, let’s not forget “woke” too! predictablenutters

The woman could use a dictionary. This is not what constitutes terrorism. Her claim, however, is consistent with an ideological position.

According to women, no woman can be guilty of murdering their children (and they do this far more than men do) because they think that the act of a woman murdering their child is insane and therefore they are not to blame because they were momentarily insane. Honestly, ask them

What about suicide? Why is violence against women worse than (the much more frequent) violence against men? That is why feminuts are so contemptible, they claim to want equality and yet also demand special rights

Mother stabs 8 children to death. Gets no time and only sympathy from the media

You know women abuse men, that women also kill their children far far more than men do and get more lenient sentences too. Rosie has bias because of her experience, I understand that... but the media is being will fully blind to women child killers, I’m not

When the words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.Confucius. Use term terrorism wisely, Millions of humans are concern, men included

I'm guessing the 'children' part doesn't include from their mother. EverydaySexism from CollegeMarxists

CMontgomeryBur5 good thoughts but rosie batty will try and cash in on that.

In Australia in 2019, 39 women and 28 men were killed in DV incidents. Also killed were 18 children, 14 by women and 4 by men. Yet it's ALWAYS 'men bad, women victims' to the DV industry, and that's where all the funding goes.

How is white ribbon going?

Hyperbole around DV is not needed, we know it is evil but there is no one single ideology encouraging or excusing DV in the individual perpetrators. These broken individuals need to be dealt with individually. Also DV laws are state not federal issues. Domestic Violence is evil.

Mean words = violence. Violence = terrorism. Always trying to use excessively intense terms to make something seem worse than it is.

DV is indeed terrorism as any child survivor can tell you. Waiting for the other shoe to drop is traumatizing for life. ALL DV offenders should be arrested on the spot and face court for terrorism/abuse. hannah

Does she even care about male victims?

Let me guess who has to show more 'leadership' on a state issue of law and order

Hannah Clarke and her three children were murdered outside their home by Rowan Baxter. We need electronic trackers on those with AVOs, with breaches of 'protected zones' (home, work, school) triggering police/2 Make this go viral TrackingForAVOs AnnastaciaMP ScottMorrisonMP

luciemorrismarr Those three children & their young mother must not have died in vain. ScottMorrisonMP & other significant Oz community leaders should call for every Aussie to remember them by watching for & reporting DV, or potential DV, whenever they can. DV corrodes civilisation. 🙏🇦🇺🙏

DrKarenLonsdale All the national security laws, all the wars involved in, all the bombs dropped since 9/11, and yet we let these murders happen again and again. Our country is woeful.

The man hater is back.

luciemorrismarr No chance with captain cruelty the potato head at the helm

Agree

Structural change, cultural overhaul needed. Our system is competitive, worships and rewards aggressive males, schools laud physical prowess and cut down academic poppies, we tolerate violence and avoid investing in solutions on economic grounds. Need a SWAT approach for now.

luciemorrismarr I can imagine that every time one of these incidents occurs Rosie Batty in some way is forced to relive her own horror. I can’t believe she & women like her are still having to fight for understanding & support

Couldn't agree more. The numbers are nothing short of horrific and a national shame.

Terrorism can claim the life of anyone on the planet. Domestic violence does not.

'the most pressing issue of terrorism'?

I agree. Solving it, on the other hand, is complex and requires action that I doubt our society is ready or prepared to take.

Terrorism has a definition in law. Dont think domestic violence applies.

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