For Leanne Castley, the push to criminalise coercive control in the ACT has always been personal. Growing up, the Canberra Liberals leader watched the insidious form of abuse strip power, freedom and ...

More than 50 charges of coercive control have been laid in the six months since it was criminalised in Queensland, but advocates and legal experts believe more training is needed to better identify ...

Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability.

A report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology has revealed how Australian female victim-survivors feel about the criminalization of coercive control and highlighted a need for wider ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting ...