Melbourne advocates march to eliminate violence against women

ABC NEWS (Australia)

In Victoria,  a walk against domestic violence is taking place this morning from the steps of parliament house. It's part of a global campaign to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls.

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00:00 It is an opportunity for all Victorians to join us in acknowledging that family violence

00:07 doesn't have to be this way.

00:09 Violence against women is preventable and we're calling on all the Victorian community

00:13 to walk in solidarity with victim survivors today and to pledge to be part of the change

00:18 that's so desperately needed.

00:20 Just in the last week we've seen six women killed, five of which have been killed by

00:24 allegedly by men known to them.

00:26 And that's just the tip of the iceberg, the amount of harm and trauma that sits underneath

00:30 that for people that are living with domestic and family violence and recovering from.

00:34 It can be challenging but the absolute message is and the hopeful message is it doesn't have

00:38 to be this way.

00:39 This violence is preventable.

00:41 So we're asking all Australians to stick with us in that and to imagine a future where we

00:45 don't have this scale of violence.

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