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Both NSW and Queensland have held separate parliamentary enquiries into possibly criminalising coercive control in the past week. Both are due to report their findings later this year. However, many survivors and experts fear that criminalising coercive control could potentially further endanger those currently in abusive partnerships. Recognising and defining coercive control in the eyes of the law is difficult, as every case is unique to the partnership. Without a universal set of recognisable behaviours, criminalising coercive control poses the threat of cases going unrecognised, among other challenges. Coercive control laws are about stopping women & children from being burnt, stabbed, run over, strangled, raped & lives violently extinguished. ....
Big Beaver Plaza reopened after the tornado, but success never returned Jenny Wagner BIG BEAVER Big Beaver Plaza was a bustling shopping center on May 31, 1985, when a funnel cloud swept straight through the middle of it. Before the tornado, the plaza was home to more than a dozen businesses, including Jamesway department store, Comet Food Warehouse, a state liquor store, where two individuals died in the tornado, Gerello’s Beer Distributor, Fowler Veterinary Clinic and Zodiac Hairstylist. Store shelves were toppled and merchandise destroyed, windows were blown out, concrete block walls crumbled and the steel roofs collapsed or were open to the sky above. The parking lot resembled a junkyard, said Beaver County Emergency Services Director Wes Hill, then-fire services coordinator. ....