'Invisible abuse'
Investigative journalist Jess Hill spent four years researching and writing about Australia’s domestic violence crisis in her book
See What You Made Me Do, now an upcoming SBS documentary series.
She says the elusive nature of coercive control often makes it invisible to others.
Key points:
A recent study found that over half of the domestic violence victims on temporary visas were threatened with deportation by their sponsors
Anti-family violence advocates are calling for expanding the special family violence provisions of the migration law to cover temporary visa holders
Advocates are also calling for criminalising coercive control in all jurisdictions within Australia