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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey

Eight years ago Australia had a wake-up call on family violence. So how did we end up here again?

Rally calling for action to end violence against women outside Parliament House in Canberra, 28 April, 2024.
Rally calling for action to end violence against women outside Parliament House in Canberra, 28 April, 2024. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

At least 27 women have been killed in Australia so far in 2024, prompting a record number of people to gather at Melbourne’s Family Violence Memorial on Thursday in collective grief and despair.

“Tonight we light not one candle but many,” Antoinette Braybrook, the chief executive of the Aboriginal family violence organisation Djirra, said in a speech ahead of the vigil.

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