A rally planned for Byron Bay’s Railway Park on Friday, July 26 from 6pm will be one of 23 during a national weekend of rallies calling for an end to male violence against women.
Organisers of the local rally, Beth Stirling and Shanaai Brown-Marcantelli, are encouraging everyone to back the demands of the rally, which is mandatory trauma-informed training for first responders across Australia and funding grassroots organisations in the domestic, family, and sexual violence sector, including men’s behaviour-change programs and women’s refuges.
After a spate of violent and fatal attacks on women, advocacy group, What Were You Wearing, organised the first ‘No More’ rallies.
Politicians need to act now
Its founder and CEO Sarah Williams says, ‘enough is enough’.
‘And it has been enough for a long time. We need more action from politicians, and we need them to take these crimes more seriously. In 2012, two men were killed, triggering a whole new law.
‘Now, more than 60 women are being murdered every year, and we are still lacking action.
‘53 per cent of women will experience sexual harassment in their lifetime, with an estimated 97 per cent of these cases going unreported’, she said.
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