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'''Rosemary Anne''' "'''Rosie'''" '''Batty''' (born 9 February 1962) is an Australian [[domestic violence]] campaigner and the 2015 [[Australian of the Year]].<ref name=ABCAotY>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-25/rosie-batty-named-australian-of-the-year-2015/6045290|title=Australian of the Year: Rosie Batty awarded top honour for efforts to stop family violence|work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|location=Australia|date=25 January 2015|accessdate=25 January 2015}}</ref> Her role as a campaigner began in 2014 after her 11 year old son Luke Batty was murdered by his father Greg Anderson.<ref name=MC>{{Cite web|title = Mother courage – At Home with Rosie Batty|url = https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/october/1412085600/helen-garner/mother-courage|website = The Monthly|access-date = 2016-01-27|last = Garner |first=Helen}}</ref>
'''Rosemary Anne''' "'''Rosie'''" '''Batty''' (born 9 February 1962) is an Australian [[domestic violence]] campaigner and the 2015 [[Australian of the Year]].<ref name=ABCAotY>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-25/rosie-batty-named-australian-of-the-year-2015/6045290|title=Australian of the Year: Rosie Batty awarded top honour for efforts to stop family violence|work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|location=Australia|date=25 January 2015|accessdate=25 January 2015}}</ref> Her role as a campaigner began in 2014 after her 11 year old son Luke Batty was murdered by his father Greg Anderson.<ref name=MC>{{Cite web|title = Mother courage – At Home with Rosie Batty|url = https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/october/1412085600/helen-garner/mother-courage|website = The Monthly|access-date = 2016-01-27|last = Garner |first=Helen}}</ref>


As a campaigner, she has spoken publicly about her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence in order to raise public awareness and advocate for social changes.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title = Rosie's Story|url = http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/07/14/4043135.htm|website = www.abc.net.au|access-date = 2016-01-27|language = en-AU}}</ref> Batty is considered to have had a significant influence on national public attitudes, philanthropy, government initiatives and funding, support services and police and legal procedures related to domestic violence in Australia.<ref name="auto" /><ref name="AotYAwards">{{Cite web|title = Australian of the Year Awards|url = http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1179|website = www.australianoftheyear.org.au|access-date = 2016-01-27}}</ref>
As a campaigner, she has spoken publicly about her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence in order to raise public awareness and advocate for social changes.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title = Rosie's Story|url = http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/07/14/4043135.htm|website = www.abc.net.au|access-date = 2016-01-27|language = en-AU}}</ref>
Batty is considered to have had a significant influence on national public attitudes, philanthropy, government initiatives and funding, support services and police and legal procedures related to domestic violence in Australia.<ref name="auto" /><ref name="AotYAwards">{{Cite web|title = Australian of the Year Awards|url = http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&recipientID=1179|website = www.australianoftheyear.org.au|access-date = 2016-01-27}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==

Revision as of 01:50, 9 January 2018

Rosie Batty
Born
Rosemary Anne Batty[1]

(1962-02-09) 9 February 1962 (age 62)[2][3]
Laneham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom[4]
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipAustralian
Known forDomestic violence campaigner
ChildrenLuke Batty (2002–2014)
Awards2015 Australian of the Year

Rosemary Anne "Rosie" Batty (born 9 February 1962) is an Australian domestic violence campaigner and the 2015 Australian of the Year.[5] Her role as a campaigner began in 2014 after her 11 year old son Luke Batty was murdered by his father Greg Anderson.[6]

As a campaigner, she has spoken publicly about her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence in order to raise public awareness and advocate for social changes.[7]

Batty is considered to have had a significant influence on national public attitudes, philanthropy, government initiatives and funding, support services and police and legal procedures related to domestic violence in Australia.[7][8]

Background

Batty was born in England and settled in Australia in 1988 following an initial visit in 1986.[9]


Murder of Luke

Luke Batty was described as "nice and fun".[7] He played cricket and was a Scouts member.

On 12 February 2014, Anderson murdered eleven year old Luke at cricket practice on a sports oval in the outer Melbourne suburb of Tyabb.[10][11] Although parents and children were present, as people began to leave and were some distance away Anderson managed to isolate Luke inside a cricket net where he struck his son on the head and stabbed him to death. Anderson resisted arrest and threatened ambulance workers with his knife. He later died in hospital from police gunshots[12] and self-inflicted stab wounds.

In the coronial inquest, police officers, child protection services and Batty stated that they never believed that Anderson would harm Luke, as although he had a history of violence against Batty, he was not violent toward his son.[13]

The murder of Luke Batty gained significant media attention in Australia.

Campaign against domestic violence

Batty began speaking publicly about her experience after addressing the media the morning after Luke's murder.[14] She became an advocate for domestic violence survivors and victims, and sought to address perceived systemic failures in responses to domestic violence in Australia.[6][15][16] She has spoken about a lack of communication between services, about public perceptions of domestic violence, about a lack of funding, and about police and legal procedures that she felt disempowered her ability to protect herself and her son.[7]

In 2014, Batty established the Luke Batty Foundation to assist women and children affected by domestic violence, and make the voices of women and children affected by family violence heard.[17]

Batty was appointed 2015 Australian of the Year, awarded the Pride of Australia’s National Courage Medal in 2014, awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of The Sunshine Coast, and was ranked number 33 in the list of the World's Greatest Leaders 2016 by Fortune magazine.[5][8][18][19] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said of domestic violence in Australia that it "requires a great advocate and Rosie has been able to do that in a way that I think nobody has done before."[20]

In April 2014, she responded to a comment from journalist Joe Hildebrand on Ten Network's Studio 10, a TV panel show. In discussing proposed Victorian laws for compulsory reporting of child abuse cases, Hildebrand said that being "scared for your own safety, I’m sorry, it is not an excuse". In response, Batty said that she was shocked at the notion, and had thought that after her son's death, she had hoped that "something would come out of this that would actually show the difficulty women have in abusive relationships".[21]

In September 2015 she called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to close Australian immigration detention facilities due to the incidence of rape and sexual assault.[22]

Batty's story was instrumental in the establishment in 2015 of the Royal Commission into Family Violence in her home state of Victoria.[23][24] It was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, 30 March 2016. The report is a culmination of a 13-month inquiry into how to effectively prevent family violence, improve early intervention, support victims, make perpetrators accountable, better coordinate community and government response and evaluate and measure strategies, frameworks, policies, programs and services.[25] The report is made up of eight volumes and is founded on 227 recommendations made by the Commission to improve, guide and oversee a long-term reform program that deals with family violence. This includes the establishment of the Family Violence Protection Act which provides a detailed definition of family violence, the relationships in which it can arise and a reinforcement of the sound objectives and principles of the Act.[26]

Bibliography

  • Batty, Rosie (with Bryce Corbett): A Mother's Story (1 October 2015). HarperCollins Australia. ISBN 9781460750551

References

  1. ^ Witness Statement of Rosie Batty, Royal Commission into Family Violence, 6 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Rosie Batty named Australian of the Year". Sky News. Australia. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Mother says Luke loved and trusted his father despite his problems". The Age. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Former Lincoln school pupil watches ex-partner batter their son to death with cricket bat in Australia". Lincolnshire Echo. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Australian of the Year: Rosie Batty awarded top honour for efforts to stop family violence". ABC News. Australia. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. ^ a b Garner, Helen. "Mother courage – At Home with Rosie Batty". The Monthly. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d "Rosie's Story". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Australian of the Year Awards". www.australianoftheyear.org.au. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  9. ^ Harari, Fiona (29 November 2014). "Mother courage: Rosie Batty's life after Luke". Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  10. ^ Davey, Melissa (21 October 2014). "Rosie Batty hits back at questions about her actions before son Luke's murder". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  11. ^ Davey, Melissa (22 October 2014). "Luke Batty's killer, Greg Anderson, was 'bad, not mad', police tell inquest". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Small town in shock after father kills 11yo son on cricket oval". ABC News. ABC (Australia). 12 February 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference auto1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Harari, Fiona (29 November 2014). "Mother courage: Rosie Batty's life after Luke". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  15. ^ "Luke Batty's mother Rosie urges overhaul to prevent children's deaths". The Age. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  16. ^ Singer, Melissa (15 February 2014). "Charity to mark Luke Batty's tragic death". The Age. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  17. ^ "Luke Batty Foundation". Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  18. ^ "USC to award Honorary Doctorate to Rosie Batty". My Sunshine Coast. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  19. ^ "Rosie Batty". Fortune. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  20. ^ "Outgoing Australian of the Year Rosie Batty's legacy". ABC News. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  21. ^ "Rosie Batty blasts Studio 10 host Joe Hildebrand on morning TV". news.com.au. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  22. ^ Allard, Tom Rosie Batty takes on Malcolm Turnbull over detention centres: 'They must be shut down' 2 October 2015 Sydney Morning Herald
  23. ^ Akerman, Pia (20 January 2015). "Australian of the year: Rosie Batty, a voice of family violence". The Australian. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  24. ^ Batty, Rosie (21 January 2015). "Domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty welcomes Victorian royal commission" (Streaming audio; transcript) (Interview). Interviewed by Hamish Macdonald. Retrieved 26 January 2015. {{cite interview}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help); Unknown parameter |call-sign= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |city= ignored (|location= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |program= ignored (help)
  25. ^ Matthers, Tracey (31 July 2016). "Royal commission report delivered to Government House". Royal Commission into Family Violence.
  26. ^ "Royal Commission into Family Violence Report" (PDF). Royal Commission into Family Violence. March 2016.
Awards and achievements
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