Australia has lost more than 1300 women and girls to acts of mainly male violence since 2000.
Yet there’s been no national examination of the systemic failures and cultural attitudes underpinning our femicide epidemic.
I am calling on the Federal Government to hold a royal commission into the killing of women and girls.
The RC would examine all unlawful deaths of women and girls, inlcuding intimate partner and domestic violence, associate violence (the violent deaths of women and girls by people known to them but who are not related) and stranger violence.
From five-day-old babies to great grandmothers in their 90s, I’ve spent more than 10 years documenting every unlawful deaths of women and children across our country.
From January 1, 2000 to now, more than 1300 women and girls have been killed. Yet the political will to end the killings often seems non-existent.
When two violent men murdered 15 people at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, the calls for a royal commission into antisemitism were swift and ongoing. Yes, each of these victims is important and their deaths must be examined.
There were no calls for a Royal Commission when a man committed the act of mass femicide at Bondi Westfield in 2024; when Rowan Baxter murdered Hannah Clarke and her children in Brisbane; or when Anthony Robert Harvey murdered five female members of his family in 2018 at Bedford.
Just this week, a man allegedly murdered Sophie Quinn and her unborn son, Nerida Quinn and John Harris at Lake Cargelligo. There’s been no recognition of their deaths from our political leaders and no suggestion of an RC into their deaths.
Already (as I write) we have lost four women to acts of male violence this year.
Last year, 77 women were killed in 2025 and in 2024, I counted the unlawful killing of 105 women. This means we have lost 186 women since January 1, 2024.
Every four days, on average, a woman or girl is killed in Australia. Almost always by a man. Too often, their deaths are swept aside and forgotten.
Every one of these Australians is a valued and much-loved human, missed by her family, her friends and her community. She is most often a daughter, a mother, an aunt, a sister, a grandmother – she is always someone unique and vital!
Every death is documented on the Memorial to Women and Children Lost to Violence.
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