00:00I'm Cheryl Moody. I'm the founder of Australian Femicide Watch and the Red Heart Movement.
00:05This is my project, the She Matters mural. It contains the faces of around 200 women lost to
00:13violence since January 1, 2024. It also contains the faces of a group of women killed here in
00:21Ballarat over the past few years and in the years preceding that. So the red section is 2024 and we
00:28have Hannah Maguire, Rebecca Young and Samantha Murphy in the 2024 section. The blue section are
00:37Ballarat women who were killed before 2024. So we, for instance, Kobe Parfit. There's a few names that
00:45people will recognize. The green section is 2025. All of the women killed in 2025 and the purple section
00:54is 2026. The She Matters mural, basically it's an organic project, very much a piece of gorilla
01:03artwork, I guess, in that I paste the She Matters cards onto walls and it stays up for 12 months
01:13and as women are killed or as I find out about new women, their cards are added. So it's a
01:18constant
01:19growing organic piece of artwork. The reality is that violence against women is not inevitable.
01:26That is a fact. Violence against women is something that we can fix. It is very much preventable.
01:34Unfortunately, we haven't got to the point of prevention. And what that means for a project like
01:40this is allocating space for the women to be killed. So even though I believe that violence is not
01:47inevitable, I know that we are not in the place yet where we will see the homicide toll reduced to
01:57zero.
01:57We're nowhere near that. And so there's space on this wall. The wall is very big for a reason.
02:03You can see a little bit of room in the red section and the green section. Basically, that means that
02:08there are deaths that I'm monitoring at the moment in both those years that I haven't quite been able to
02:13get across the line. When I do, those victims' cards will be added. These are women lost to violence.
02:20For every woman lost to domestic violence in Australia, killed by a former partner or family
02:27member, we lose 10 women to suicide post-domestic violence. This epidemic is massive. So
02:37on average, we lose a woman every four days across Australia. We are probably losing a woman every
02:43one or two days.
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