White Ribbon Round has become an annual fixture on the Ovens and Murray calendar.
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The league will stage the initiative, designed to raise awareness to stop violence against women, for a sixth season this weekend.
O and M general manager Sean Barrett revealed the league will continue its partnership by again using white footballs for all matches, with players and umpires to wear white armbands.
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The league launched the round at Albury's SS and A Club yesterday, sharing the story of Benalla's Angela Barker, an advocate for victims of domestic violence after she was assaulted by her boyfriend in 2002.
"It's the older people in the clubs that we want to push this message down to the younger kids, because it's up to you change a generation of what's been happening in the past," Victoria Police Sergeant Shane Martin said at the launch.
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Beau Greenway
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I like to tell the stories of great people in our communities. Email: beau.greenway@austcommunitymedia.com.au
