Rosie Batty: ‘Luke is frozen in my memory as an 11-year-old, but he’d be a handsome young man’

On the 10th anniversary of the murder of her son by his father, the anti-violence campaigner talks about irredeemable loss and the passage of time

Rosie Batty has been to Canberra more times than she can remember over the past decade for a reason she wishes didn’t exist.

“I always think, ‘Oh, I’m going to go for a walk around the lake’, but I never do,” says the once anonymous suburban mum who was catapulted to tragic national prominence when her estranged partner Greg Anderson murdered their son Luke, 11, at cricket practise in 2014.

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