New South Wales becomes only one of a handful of places in the world to criminalise coercive control, as the bill passes the lower house.
New South Wales will be the first Australian jurisdiction to criminalise coercive control despite opposition from domestic violence groups about the way the offence is defined.The bill makes coercive control a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonmentThe state government's legislation today passed parliament, which means coercive control will become a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.
Last year NSW's domestic violence review team found that 99 per cent — 111 out of 112 — intimate partner homicides between 2008 and 2016 in NSW were preceded by coercive control. Domestic Violence NSW CEO Renata Field said the threshold would be too high to meet in many cases and give women a false sense of confidence their perpetrator could be prosecuted.
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