‘Stop talking and start doing.’ Rosie Batty on trolls, accidental advocacy and treating domestic violence for what it is: terrorism
- Written by: Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
It is ten years since Rosie Batty’s 11-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father during cricket practice. Last week, amid a national crisis of violence against women, Batty reiterated her plea for family violence to be called what it is: intimate terrorism.
There is, argues Batty,
an unconscious minimisation of violence when we put domestic...