00:00Through the Todd Mall and onto the Town Council, men and boys taking the lead, calling for
00:12ownership and change led by men.
00:15We can't be what we can't see.
00:20If we can't see it, how can we be it?
00:25The territory holds the record for the highest rates of domestic and family violence in the
00:30nation, with the incidence of intimate partner homicide seven times the national average.
00:37It's a grim reality frontline workers say is at crisis level.
00:42Every time a woman walks into our emergency department battered, bruised or broken, it
00:49is a reminder that domestic violence is not just a personal tragedy, it's a societal crisis.
00:54The anti-government says its circuit breaker program, launched last year, delivered a
01:0033% drop in domestic violence in Alice Springs compared to last year.
01:05But many here today say that's not their lived experience.
01:09The everyday person visually seeing and visually hearing this stuff, there's no decrease in
01:18these types of behaviours.
01:19Organisers want the march to become an annual event, with men supporting men to break the
01:25cycle and keep families safe.
01:28Women at the event backing them all the way.
01:31We are here to support you.
01:33We love what you are trying to do.
01:38We love what you are doing.
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