Shortcut: Victoria's gun system failed Marilyn Burdon

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

 

Marilyn Burdon was a 70-year-old mother and grandmother who, in 2017, was killed in her Kew home by her former partner, Charles Bisucci, who then took his own life.

 

Despite being banned from owning firearms for over a decade, Bisucci was able to access multiple guns, a failure later examined at a coronial inquest that led to recommendations for change.

 

One of Marilyn’s three children, Rebecca Burdon, joins us to speak about her mother’s life, the circumstances of her death, and why the system still hasn’t fixed the gaps that allowed it to happen.

Links:

• www.burdonlegal.com.au
• A child’s right to be heard | Pursuit by the University of Melbourne
• Losing a parent to domestic homicide – and everything that’s wrong with this headline | Pursuit by the University of Melbourne
• A child’s right to be heard | Pursuit by the University of Melbourne
• OPEN Event Reflection: You Should Ask That – Continuing the conversation with the children of women killed by men.
• Children and young people bereaved by domestic homicide: A focus on Australia.

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie

Guest: Rebecca Burdon

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard