Clarkes Step Back from Hannah's Story Training

0:00It's April 23rd. You're listening to Adelaide News today, AI-powered local news. Sue and Lloyd Clark, parents of Hannah Clark, are stepping back from their charity, small steps for Hannah after more than six years of pushing for. Change. Their daughter and three young kids were murdered by her estranged husband, Rowan Baxter, in a brutal car fire attack back in February 2020. The family turned grief into action, lobbying Queensland to make coercive control of crime and build safehouses for abuse victims. They created a training program called Hannah Story, sharing red flags from their daughter's decade-long ordeal, like constant phone checks, dress, cold rules, and isolation tactics. It hit hard in Tasmania, where police rolled it out in September 2024, boosting coercive control reports by 35% in just six months. Officers there say it changed everything, from report writing, despotting patterns early, using victims' own words instead of jargon. Sue and Lloyd poured

1:01everything into this, landing Sue in the hospital nearly once a year from the stress, but now exhaustion means they're shifting, to behind the scenes' roles and winding down the training delivery by June. Queensland police haven't adopted the program, despite a coroner's report calling out mischances to spot backster's risks and urging better domestic violence training. Officials say their methods already cover it, and they've used the Clark story in some sessions. The legacy lives on, with Tasmania keeping Hannah Story at its core, to train more front-line workers hoping to stop the next tragedy before it hits.