Hollywood stars and sportsmen speak out in anti-domestic violence plea

Australian sportsmen and movie stars person issued an anti-domestic unit plea successful a video posted to YouTube.

The video included actor Hugh Jackman, footballers Darcy Moore and James Sicily, character Eric Bana, vocalist Vance Joy, character Travis Fimmel, cricketer Usman Khawaja, comedian Hamish Blake and others.

The connection urged men to guidelines up against home violence, specifically unit targeting women.

"Whenever we talk astir men's unit against women, we often perceive group reason that it's not each men," Moore says, opening nan video.

"We cognize that not each men are convulsive towards women, but each men person a domiciled to play successful helping to extremity it."

"Family unit harms excessively galore Australians each year," Jackman adds.

"Family unit is simply a nationalist disgrace," Bana says.

"We request to telephone it out, it needs to change," Vance Joy continued.

The video goes on, ending connected Moore saying: "By calling retired disrespect erstwhile we spot it and erstwhile we perceive it, and ne'er making excuses for violence, each men tin thief to extremity unit against women successful our community."

The video was posted by nan Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, and is portion of an inaugural of Chief Justice Will Alstergren AO.

Since nan commencement of 2025, 31 women person been killed successful alleged home unit murders.

Another 69 women were killed successful 2024.