{"id":375,"date":"2015-02-06T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=375"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T02:18:41","slug":"rosie-batty-australian-of-the-year-criticizes-domestic-violence-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/02\/06\/rosie-batty-australian-of-the-year-criticizes-domestic-violence-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie Batty &#8211; Australian of the Year- criticizes domestic violence cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/02\/batty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/02\/batty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"batty\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/02\/batty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/02\/batty-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/02\/batty.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-news\/australian-of-the-year-rosie-batty-calls-on-pm-tony-abbott-to-reinstate-community-services-20150131-132o1n.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Schluter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rosie Batty was named Australian of the Year last week in recognition of her work to raise awareness about the shortcomings of Australia&#8217;s response to domestic violence, especially in cases where there are children involved. Batty&#8217;s son was murdered by her violent ex-husband following a string of police and family court failures.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the award, Batty has highlighted the hypocrisy of establishing high profile government domestic violence initiatives at the same time that the government is cutting funds and eliminating life-saving services for survivors of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Read about her call to reinstate the funds for services that will begin to close following funding cuts beginning February 28, with further cuts slated for July<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-news\/australian-of-the-year-rosie-batty-calls-on-pm-tony-abbott-to-reinstate-community-services-20150131-132o1n.html\" target=\"_blank\"> here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Simon Schluter Rosie Batty was named Australian of the Year last week in recognition of her work to raise awareness about the shortcomings of Australia&#8217;s response to domestic violence, especially in cases where there are children involved. Batty&#8217;s son was murdered by her violent ex-husband following a string of police and family court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9719,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-justice-policy-issues","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}