Criminalisation of coercive control/abusive behaviour

This has been a hot topic for a while now and rightly so. There needs to be continuing community discussion and education to ensure the balance in any future laws will ultimately be right.

The NSW Government is looking to join the only other state in Australia, namely, Tasmania, to criminalise coercive control. The NSW Law Society has endorsed the Government in calling for its criminalisation.

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