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| Australians call for tougher laws on violence against women after killings |
| 2024-04-28 |
| [BBC] Rallies have taken place across Australia in response to a wave of recent violence against women. Demonstrators want gender-based violence to be declared a national emergency and stricter laws put in place to stop it. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the issue was a national crisis. In Australia, a woman has been killed on average every four days so far this year. Organiser Martina Ferrara said: "We want alternative reporting options for victim survivors to let them own their stories and own their healing and reporting journey. "And we want the government to acknowledge this is an emergency action and take immediate action." Speaking at a march in the capital Canberra attended by thousands of protesters, Mr Albanese admitted the government at all levels needed to do better. "We need to change culture, the attitudes, the legal system and the approach by all governments," he said. "We need to make sure that this isn't up to women, it's up to men to change men's behaviour as well," he added. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Figures its another PM meme banning story. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-04-28 12:34 |
| #3 These girls are turning pens and pins into weapons of self-defence |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-28 10:26 |
| #2 Outside Sydney and Adelaide nobody has trouble answering that question. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 08:19 |
| #1 What is a woman? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-04-28 08:14 |
