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A Sydney woman has 'beautifully' summarised how women around Australia are feeling with her moving poem, Fed Up, in the wake of the Westfield stabbing.
Mia Findlay, an eating disorder recovery coach, told Daily Mail Australia she spent just one hour writing the monologue that has touched women around the world.
In a two-and-a-half minute video, Ms Findlay managed to encapsulate decades of the pent-up rage women have felt at the injustice of male violence.
She said Saturday's attack where five women and one man were stabbed to death by deranged knifeman, Joel Cauchi, 40, at Westfield Bondi Junction was the final straw.
Mia Findlay (pictured), an eating disorder recovery coach based in Sydney, has touched women around the world with her poem, Fed Up
Ms Findlay said she began writing Fed Up after hearing Joel Cauchi (pictured) possibly had a misogynistic motive for the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing
Ms Findlay said she wrote the piece after she her the knifeman's father admit his son 'had a problem with women' as being a possible reason for his frenzied rampage.
'I just burst into tears and usually when I read stories like that, which are constant, I respond with anger but I just felt defeated. Exhausted, defeated,' she told Daily Mail Australia
In her poem, Ms Findlay compares the government's response to attacks against women versus attacks on men.
In particular, she highlights how, when one-punch victims Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie were killed in Sydney's Kings Cross, the NSW government introduced harsh lockout laws across the state.
'I was reflecting something which has always seemed so disproportionate to me, which is the government response to the kinghit attacks all those years ago, which literally shutdown our hospitality industry in Sydney,' Ms Findlay said.
'They demonstrated they can make change.
'We were outraged when two young men were just out living their lives and were brutally murdered by men, as we should have been.
'But since then, and certainly before then, there have been scores of women killed for doing exactly that.
'So what's the difference? What's the difference?'
Ms Findlay described the government's response to the 'country's great shame', violence against women, as nothing short of 'poor'.
'They have shown what they can do, they were willing to sacrifice the economy, an industry which upholds our tourism,' she said of the king hit attacks.
'But for us nothing, crickets. Platitudes when something as enormous as this happens. But then still nothing.'
Ms Findlay (pictured) questioned why the Australian Government has done more to prevent violence against women
The poem mentioned 17-year-old Masa Vukotic (pictured) who was murdered by a man not known to her in March 2015
One case Ms Findlay touched on was that of 17-year-old Masa Vukotic who was stabbed to death by a stranger in March 2015 while walking in a Melbourne park.
Ms Findlay's poem on Thursday prompted Masa's sister, Nadja, to share her own video calling for women to be better protected.
'My sister went for a walk about 500 metres from our house. She was killed, it wasn't even night-time, it was 6.50pm,' Nadja said.
'Enough has been enough for so long now, even before my sister passed away. something really needs to be done.
'I really don't understand the hatred towards women. We all came from a woman.
'Please just be better, be better.'
Nadja also talked about her sister, describing her as 'the best person that I have ever known and ever got the privilege to know'.
'She was 17 years old. She wanted to be a lawyer, she wanted to get married, she wanted to have a big family,' Nadja said.
'She is more than just a victim of a man. She's more than just a victim of knife violence.
'And she could have been so much more than she was, she was 17.
'She was just a f**king kid.'
Ms Findlay said she received dozens of messages from her friends after a
