Perth soccer participant Danny Hodgson is pleading for an finish to violence on the town's streets.
A one-punch assault left the 26-year-old with a catastrophic mind damage in September final 12 months.
His teenage attacker was given a sentence of three-and-a-half years.
Mr Hodgson and his household are actually pushing for harsher penalties eight months after the encounter.
His mom Nicola mentioned the unprovoked assault "broke our household, actually broke it to items".
"We're actually placing these items again collectively every single day and it is by no means going to be regular," Ms Hodgson mentioned.
The push follows an announcement right this moment that boxer Danny Inexperienced's Cease the Coward Punch marketing campaign will obtain a million-dollar federal authorities increase.
The household believes it is a begin however it is not sufficient.
They're calling for a minimal necessary sentence of 10 years.
"In the event that they need to cease this taking place, they have to behave now," Mr Hodgson mentioned.
"The faster they act, the faster it stops."
Mr Hodgson is making progress on his highway to restoration and is doing issues medical doctors believed he by no means would once more.
"Daily is a problem," he mentioned.
"The primary factor now's to learn to stroll once more, which I am enhancing quickly."
Ms Hodgson mentioned she was amazed by her son's progress.
"It is one thing we did not suppose we have been going to see," she mentioned.
"We have been informed he would not do it and right here he's simply flattening obstacles and making me proud every single day."
Mr Hodgson's dad and mom flew to Perth to be by their son's facet and so they have not left since.
After 186 days in hospital, the Joondalup participant mentioned he would not be the place he's with out them.
"There's all the time mild on the finish of the tunnel," he mentioned.
"You have simply received to brace your self and set a mindset that you will get via it and happier days will come."