What I've Learnt - Rosie Batty
Sadly it was a tragedy that brought mother Australian of the Year Rosie Batty into the limelight.
On an otherwise ordinary day in early 2014 her only child, Luke, an effervescent 11-year-old, was at cricket practice when he was killed in front of her by his father. It was a brutal, incomprehensible act, carried out amidst children playing sport on a summer’s day, and it shocked a nation.
24 hours later she bravely stood before the press determined to bring family violence into the public arena. Surrounded by microphones and media outlets she spoke.
“Family violence happens to everybody, no…
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