I Turned 30 This Year. Eurydice Dixon Should Have Too

Today marks what would have been the 30th birthday of Eurydice Dixon, the Melbourne comedian, daughter, and friend who was stalked, raped, and murdered in a city park seven years ago.

Her murder, like those of Jill Meagher and Samantha Murphy, highlights the quiet fear shared amongst women across Australia.

We remember Eurydice, share a message from her father on this difficult day, and call for a reckoning in policy and prevention to stop violence against women.

And in headlines today, The Victorian government has announced a pilot of the "green whistle" inhaler for IUD insertions in response to the Australian first inquiry into women's pain; Israel has received the remains of a deceased hostage held in the Gaza Strip that Palestinian militant group Hamas says are of Hadar Goldin, a military officer killed in an ambush in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israel-Hamas war; The one-time biggest name in Australian talkback radio, John Laws, has died aged 90; Weeks after thieves made off with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris, fedora man has finally been unveiled as 15 year old French boy Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, who simply loves dressing chic

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