A few hundred metres from home
Another woman raped and murdered for daring to be outside at 10:30 p.m.
The body of Eurydice Dixon, 22, was found at a football field in Melbourne early on Wednesday, only hours after she had performed a gig at a city bar.
A man, 19, has been charged by police.
Comedians and the public have inundated social media with tributes to Ms Dixon, in a case that has reignited local debate about violence against women.
For many, it has evoked memories of the 2012 murder of an Irish woman, Jill Meagher, whose death in an adjacent Melbourne suburb prompted a peace march involving an estimated 30,000 people.
Although not widely known, Ms Dixon has been remembered as a talented comedian at the start of her career.
“She had a great passion for women’s issues and social justice issues and she drew upon them a lot in the material that she produced as a comic,” fellow comedian Nicky Barry told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Well she won’t be doing that any more.
Local media reported that Ms Dixon was a few hundred metres from home when she was attacked.
According to The Age newspaper, she had earlier sent a text message to a friend saying: “I’m almost home safe, HBU [how about you].”
Too bad Melbourne is so full of bears wolves tigers sharks rattlesnakes men who hate women.
Ms Dixon’s death has also renewed a more general discussion in Australia about violence against women.
Australia’s human rights commission has said that the country has “a disturbingly high rate of violence against women”.
According to government figures, one in five women, and one in 20 men, have experienced sexual violence or threats since the age of 15.
The other four women don’t go out alone.
This time it’s my turn to be ashamed of the city where I was born and the country I live in.
RJW, my home town as well, although I haven’t lived there for 56 years, those parklands hold a dear memory for me, as does the Performing Arts scene.
There is nothing good that can come of such a tragedy, but at least the rapist/murderer had the courage/guilt/fear to come forward and surrender to Police so hopefully there will not be a drawn out trial for family and friends to sit through. And there is one less wolf in the Park at night.
Roj
I’m 72 and during my lifetime the city has become increasingly violent in general, not just against women. To what extent that’s caused by alcohol-induced violence and not just misogyny is an open question. I’m sure you remember the restrictions on the serving of alcohol after 6 pm.
So they’re afraid that other prisoners won’t accept victim-blaming either?
The site of her memorial was vandalized. Somebody painted a giant penis beside it.