There have been far too many (one is too many, really) cases of family violence where children have been killed by their fathers.
A dad threw his daughter off the Westgate Bridge, a fact I’m reminded of every time I drive over it. A father drove his car into a lake and let his three children drown while he swam to shore.
But, when Greg Anderson killed 11 year old Luke Batty in February 2014, the nation’s attention was drawn in a way it had not been before.
The difference was Rosie Batty.
The day after Luke was killed, his mother Rosie walked the length of her driveway with the intention of asking the media pack that had gathered to leave her in peace.
Instead, Rosie spoke about Luke, about his father and about the family violence she had been subject to for many years.
She spoke in a way that arrested our attention and restarted a push for national action to stop violence against women and children.
Rosie recently sat down with Mia Freedman for the No Filter podcast to talk about her new book, A Mother's Story, about how our community handles violence against women, victim blaming and what it's like being Australian of the Year.
Rosie Batty's book, A Mother's Story, is out now.
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