April 27 () –
Thousands of people have marched this Saturday through the streets of some of Australia’s main cities, with Sydney and Adelaide at the forefront, to demand that the Government of the country’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, declare a state of national emergency after the 27 women murdered this year in cases of sexist violence.
The protests, which will continue on Sunday in Melbourne, Perth, Canberra – where Albanese himself will participate – and Brisbane, demand new methods of police communication to prevent officers from blaming the victim, alternative means of reporting with the creation of courts specialized experts, a new protocol among the media to wait 48 hours before naming the victims and more financial aid to organizations against sexist violence.
The organizers of the Sydney march have ended up laying 32 flowers in the city’s Hyde Park, one for every woman murdered in the country so far this year plus the five killed in the stabbing attack at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center on last April 13th.
Among the latest crimes is that of Molly Ticehurst, 28, murdered on April 22. The main suspect in her murder is a former romantic partner, Daniel Billings, who was released on bail despite having been accused of raping and harassing her, and despite requests from the Prosecutor’s Office for him not to end up free given the danger he posed. represented for the young woman.
One of the organizers of the demonstration, the survivor of sexist violence and founder of the organization What Were You Wearing, Sarah Williams, has called on the Government to act immediately. “I’m begging them directly. I hope that people will create enough pressure for them to do something,” she told the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
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