Erin Molan's emotional message after Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing: 'Don't feel safe'

Erin Molan shared an emotional message on 2Day FM's Hughesy, Ed and Erin on Monday morning, with the presenter telling her co-hosts that women feel less and less safe in everyday places due to violent men following the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing on Saturday.

Six people have died, and a dozen more were injured by knifeman Joel Cauchi, who was shot dead by lone NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott.

"It's hard for men to understand what it is like to not feel safe doing normal everyday things – and a shopping centre?" Erin began. "Like how many other things do we have to add to this list? Girls' bathrooms – that young girl who got attacked in a bathroom a couple [months ago], bathrooms aren't safe. Like there is nowhere that we can go now where we feel safe as a woman."

Clearly emotional, she continued, "You go into a car park, you don't feel safe. You might call someone so you've got someone on the phone just in case something happens. You want to go for a run in the morning? Well you can't do that because you'll be killed. You want to go for a run at night? Well, you can't do that it's too dark.

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"You want to wear a skirt out to a bar with your girlfriends. You can't do that because that might attract the wrong type of attention. You can't drive anywhere in your car because women get murdered in their cars. At home. We get murdered at home more than anything else we get murdered at home, and now add that to a Westfield Shopping Centre [it's] another place that women don't feel safe. I'm at end of my tether with it because you just – where are we safe as women?

"Where are your daughters safe?" she questioned her co-hosts Dave 'Hughesy' Hughes and Ed Kavalee.

"They went for a ride on their bike yesterday," Hughesy responded. "We let them go because I think you just have to – you've got to trust the world."

"The hero of this story is New South Wales Police Inspector Amy Scott, who stared down her own mortality and said, 'I'm going to do something,' and she did something," Hughesy added. "Amy Scott is a hero. She's a hero that we all needed and we got, a woman who is in the police force and has done an amazing thing."

Erin added that it was one of many things that Amy probably didn't want to do, but did what she had to do to protect others.

"The biggest issue we face in this country is violence against women, regardless of what the reason is, or whether it was domestic violence, whether you're crazy. Whether you're just a piece of s**t, it doesn't matter. We need to stop it, because what we're doing now is not working. It is not working."

Many people shared their thoughts on Instagram, with one user writing, "Well said. When I first heard you talk about this on the radio this morning I felt it and started to cry. I could hear it in your voice just how strong you feel on the issue. I am a survivor of DV and i have anxiety and PTSD from my past trauma. This tragic incident has triggered the whole nation especially women."

"The minute I leave home my guard is up," another added. "The list of everyday places women feel quietly unsafe would probably shock some blokes."

"I [100 per cent] agree," a third wrote. "Men have no idea or never a second thought when they go in a carpark, run or leave a partner because the relationship ends. Erin I feel what you are feeling today."

"This horrifying," a fourth said. "We can't go running, we can't go shopping, we can't stay home... what is happening?"

Interestingly, many men commented, saying that Erin was being "a little extreme" and "dramatic".

"The men commenting on this thread clearly have no idea what we are talking about and it shows," one woman wrote. "It IS a gender thing whether you want to believe it or not. Why is it that every woman knows another woman who has experienced something of this nature but no men know another man that has done anything."

"The police commissioner has agreed that he targeted women," another hit back. "Regardless, 27 Australian women have died this year because of male violence. And men have died at the hands of other men. It’s not 'all men', but women don’t know which ones are dangerous.

"Stop being defensive and ask and listen to how unsafe the women in your life feel on a daily basis. I guarantee if you ask them if they feel safe, they will give you a list of things that they change about the way they live on a daily basis."

"And only the men disagree," presenter Ash London said. "Which is exactly the problem."

"Beautifully articulated @erin_molan," actor Ryan Johnson added. "The fact that men are chiming in on this is completely irrelevant to the things you are saying and what we will never understand. Thank you for your words."

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