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The Attorney-General of New South Wales, Mark Speakman, is set to bring a bill before the state’s parliament to criminalise coercive control would be brought to parliament this week.
This article contains references to domestic violence.
Advocates for migrant and refugee women have called for caution amid a push to criminalise coercive control in domestic relationships, warning it could lead to more harm within vulnerable communities.
There are growing calls to make intimidation, stalking and other forms of coercive control illegal under reforms to domestic violence laws across Australia, with federal politicians, families of victims and journalists joining a campaign urging states and territories to outlaw this form of domestic violence.
“It is really a pervasive problem that affects terribly the lives of people who find themselves in these kinds of situations,” said Labor s families spokeswoman Linda Burney, who is part of the campaign run by Marie Claire magazine.