Emma Husar: how a backbencher from Penrith become the face of Australia's domestic violence crisis

By Matthew Knott
Updated November 24 2016 - 11:08pm, first published 10:09pm
Labor MP Emma Husar at Parliament House on Thursday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Labor MP Emma Husar at Parliament House on Thursday. Photo: Andrew Meares
"Sadly, the wheel of domestic violence continues to affect my life as a grown woman": Labor MP Emma Husar in Parliament on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
"Sadly, the wheel of domestic violence continues to affect my life as a grown woman": Labor MP Emma Husar in Parliament on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

As Emma Husar rose to her feet to speak she thought, 'I can't do this'.

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