Australian of the year.

[nevynreally]

I would like to say congratulations to Rosie Batty. But it's hard when you've lost your child.

[imastawka · Accepted solution]

Yes, it's a sad way to earn the title.

[boris1gary]

She won it because of her fight to end domestic violence. All women for the first time ever.

[nevynreally]

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@boris1gary wrote:

She won it because of her fight to end domestic violence. All women for the first time ever.

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She lost her son. Pretty sure I know which she'd rather have right now.

[purple_haize]

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@nevynreally wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

She won it because of her fight to end domestic violence. All women for the first time ever.

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She lost her son. Pretty sure I know which she'd rather have right now.

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Of course she would rather have her son, but he died in tragic circumstanses and now she is fighting to stop domestic violence, she is a strong woman to be able to do that.

[j*oono]

Rosie Batty, good for her!  A very well deserved award.

[nevynreally]

Sorry, but that just reads off.

Yes she's done a lot for domestic violence issues. But she lost her son. Her only child.

But we'll cry for those money hungry DH's in Bali.

I admire her. And I am so sorry for the price you paid.

[purple_haize]

She has lost her child, through no fault of her own, and now she has/is putting everything into helping to stop domestic violence and for that she is now Australian of the Year and good for her.

Losing a child is the worse thing possible for a mother to go through, but this woman is strong to be able to put all her energies into helping other women fight domestic violence.......

[twyngwyn]

[the_great_she_elephant]

She wasn't given the award as compensation for losing her son, she was given it for rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of her grief to focus her energies on ensuring other mothers would not have to suffer as  she did. I cannot think of a more worthy example of what we term our "Australian values" and I don't believe acknowledging and celebrating her strength and courage  has to mean we  forget or ignore  the grief she must still be enduring.