August 8, 2026 — 1:45pm

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It’s only now, about seven years after she fled a violent home, that Annie King, 23, can concentrate on starting to heal. From her mid-teens, she was focused on survival.

Memories of family violence from as young as the age of five still re-emerge, “but they are quite blurry”. How it felt to be turned away as an adolescent by people she thought would help her get to safety is far fresher.

“I was subjected to and witnessed violence,” said King, who was living in regional Victoria. “I initially approached my school…

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