‘Really hard time to be a woman in Ballarat’: Community to hold rally against men’s violence

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Community members will march through the streets of Ballarat on Friday night in a fight for justice after the Victorian city was rocked by three alleged murders at the hands of men in two months.

Rally against men's violence to be held in Ballarat after deaths of Samantha Murphy , Hannah McGuire and Rebecca Young as criminal psychologist weighs in on crisis

Sissy Austin, who was attacked with a makeshift weapon while running in Ballarat, is leading the charge to end men's violence. Picture: Sissy Austin And most recently, 23-year-old Hannah McGuire was allegedly murdered by her ex-partner, Lachlan Young - who allegedly drove her body into the bush and burned her remains.

"I would say it's scandalous and it’s a national emergency- it seems year in, year out we're reading about these murders - they’re not going down they’re escalating," he said. Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro told Sky News Australia the rise in violence against women was because too many men view women as their"chattels".

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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