"The Clough's victory in Britain has reinvigorated our commitment to having changes made in New Zealand," Tracey said yesterday. "The similarities between what happened to Christie and Jane at either end of the world are incredible and both kept detailed diaries of events."
Tracey said she and husband Brian were trying to rebuild their lives in Adelaide. Brian has a management job in a mining company.
"The plan was that Christie would join us in Australia and go to university there," she said. "The country has really embraced us and victim support there has been fantastic too.
"We took Christie's little dog Chief with us and at times I'm convinced I can see the two of them playing together in the house."
'We moved to Australia for privacy reasons but we will never give up on New Zealand or the campaign to have the bail laws changed. We need more protection for victims."
Tracey said Christmas was unbearable and she and her husband went to Bali for "spiritual time".
"Christmas was a big family occasion for us but we don't celebrate it any more," she said. "The next difficult date is when our other daughter Heather celebrates her first wedding anniversary in early March in Auckland as Christie would have been the bridesmaid."
Tracey said this April will be another difficult time. "Christie would also have been 20 in April and the hardest thing is seeing her wonderful friends getting on with their lives."
Ruth Money, spokeswoman for the Sensible Sentencing Trust said changes to bail laws were not happening quickly enough.
"We remain hopeful that, based on this UK example, that John Key acts as opposed to paying us lip service like many of his colleagues have done," Money said. 'The fact that the MPs are not listening to what the New Zealand public is demanding is insulting."