November 5, 2025 0 52 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month — a moment to speak about a form of abuse too often ignored: coercive control. This pattern of monitoring, isolation, financial ...

Groups representing women’s shelters are praising the government’s move to criminalize coercive control, but some women’s ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

'If the same pattern of abuse is carried out by a son rather than a spouse, the proposed offence would not apply,' one expert ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW and Queensland ...