00:00A blunt message from a loved one who suffered the consequences of family and domestic violence.
00:08One death is too many. The end of family violence is murder if change is not priority.
00:14Her story one of many shared at the 35th Rally Against Domestic Violence in Perth.
00:19These stand up figures representing the 19 lives lost to family and domestic violence in WA in the past year.
00:32All sides of politics marched in silence alongside more than a thousand people.
00:38Every trauma I have lived through has been the result of family and domestic violence.
00:43From men who were supposed to love and care but instead caused harm.
00:48This year's theme play your part is urging men and boys to respect women and take action against violence by being upstanders not bystanders.
00:57Men asked to guide young boys to be better.
01:00It seems an injustice to burden women with fixing the mistakes of men.
01:05The message resonating for advocate Ariel Bambara.
01:08I hope more men take his lead in playing their part and stepping up to end violence against women and children.
01:17The Centre for Women's Safety and Wellbeing says support services are stretched to the limit due to increasing demand, with too many women and children being turned away.
01:26We know that changing attitudes and behaviours takes time, but we don't see enough investment in primary prevention for that to occur in a generation and that's just much too long.
01:39The State Government says it's invested significantly and more announcements are coming.
01:44We have been working very closely with the centre and with the sector to understand where the needs are and where the pressure is.
01:50This is not going to be solved by just throwing more money at one part of the solution.
01:57Uniting in hope that the heavy burden of ending violence will be shared.
02:03Uniting in hope that the weather does not disturb you as much as far as possible.
02:11Let's play with your own new world so you can show it.
02:12Put your energy up to the standard.
02:14It is aage that we include in our dashboard under Wonderland and that we have the energy in achieving the protections for women that go before the одです.
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