Wellbeing

Rosie Batty: What I’ve Learned So Far

Family violence campaigner Rosie Batty shares her life lessons at FW X Westfield: Women in Conversation event.

By Natalie Cornish

Wellbeing

Family violence campaigner Rosie Batty shares her life lessons at FW X Westfield: Women in Conversation event.

By Natalie Cornish

Few people know pain like Rosie Batty. In 2014, her life was turned upside down when her former partner, Greg Anderson, murdered her 11-year-old son Luke following a cricket match.

Since then, she has become an outspoken and dynamic campaigner against family violence, calling for both systemic and attitudinal change in Australia – where one woman a week will be killed by domestic violence and one in four children will experience it at home. This advocacy led to her being named Australian of the Year in 2015.