Hundreds of people in Ballarat have taken to the streets, to rally against men's violence. Three women have died in the community, in the past two months.
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00:00 Hundreds marching as one. The Ballarat community is grieving and angry.
00:07 Whilst there is grief, sadness and shock, there is fire in our belly to fight for our right to exist in this town safely.
00:18 Organiser Sissy Austin was herself attacked on a run near Ballarat last year. Another victim in a spate of violence.
00:27 More women have been murdered in the town of 100,000 in the past two months.
00:31 Just one week ago, the body of Hannah Maguire was found in a burnt out car in bushland south-west of Ballarat.
00:38 Her ex-boyfriend has been charged with murder.
00:41 On February 16, mum of five Rebecca Young was stabbed to death in a suspected murder-suicide in Sebastopol.
00:48 And Samantha Murphy disappeared on her morning run on February 4 in Mount Clear.
00:54 21-year-old Patrick Stevenson has been charged with her murder.
00:57 But despite a series of sweeping searches, police still haven't found her body.
01:02 Detectives scoured bushland near Enfield yesterday and were back out again today.
01:07 But the location of the search was kept secret.
01:10 As police try to piece together the mystery, the community is mourning the lives of three women and fighting for justice.
01:20 Every single life matters. Every single person who was lost has a name, they have friends, family.
01:28 There's a whole entire community around that one person that matters.
01:32 that matters.
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