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00:00My name is Hayley, I'm Brit's fiancee, and I'm sure most of you have heard about Princess Salt.
00:06My postback is circulating on Facebook, and we cannot thank you enough for your turnout today.
00:11Just one person was enough, and to have your audience, we're very grateful.
00:16We are just two everyday queer mums that are trying to back down the stories in school for the world,
00:21and big ups for trying to organise a rally to make a change.
00:26We need to raise the next generation.
00:29We, as mothers, feel it's our duty to ensure the next generation are instilled with the attitudes and behaviours
00:36that will make violence against women, or any gender diverse person, a thing of the past.
00:41Let's demolish this notion of, he's only picking on you because he likes you, or over here you're a joke.
00:50Let's teach our children about consent, and to not ship girls.
01:03Sorry guys.
01:08Because those girls grow up into women and gender diverse people,
01:13and the ideology that that's okay because it's just always happened.
01:20When we asked the kids what we're going to do on Sunday, one of our 8 year old twins said,
01:24we're making chocolate chip cookies, and we said sorry that's Saturday,
01:27and he goes, oh yeah it's Sunday but we're changing the world, and that's what we're really trying to do.
01:38We actually made that one proud.
01:41I would like to share my experiences of assault throughout my life,
01:45because as a friend said, we are not nameless and faceless, and we shouldn't hide or be ashamed.
01:54My very first experience of being assaulted was when I was at high school,
01:58at a friend's party, drinking on the weekend, and my friend sexually assaulted me saying,
02:04it's fine because you won't remember anything.
02:09I was then in a domestic violence relationship, being loved on and falling pregnant,
02:14constantly being gaslighted that everything was my fault.
02:19And then a year later, I was putting my child into his car seat, in my car, out front of my house,
02:25when a man pulled over, and he got out of the car, and he sexually assaulted me,
02:31as I was putting my child in the car.
02:34Lucky enough, the neighbour across the road had CCTV footage to capture it, and to put it into police.
02:43When, as women and gender diverse people, do we lose that last sentence?
02:49I'm so lucky there was proof. I'm so lucky that somebody got it on camera.
02:55That just needs to stop, period.
02:59I would really like to thank all those incredibly brave women and gender diverse people
03:03that emailed in to us with their stories.
03:06I would just like to really bring up the stats to light.
03:09No names would be attached because of privacy purposes.
03:13Five submitted sexual harassment.
03:19Twenty-two submitted sexual assault.
03:22Twelve submitted rape.
03:24Six submitted coercive control.
03:27Eighteen reported physical assault.
03:30Four reported domestic violence.
03:34Three reported financial abuse.
03:37Six submitted grooming.
03:39Six submitted emotional abuse.
03:42And four submitted stalking.
03:45A total of 17 offences were emailed to us.