Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Parliament have voted unanimously to criminalize coercive control, a pattern of behaviour that can perpetuate domestic ...

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 ...

Social services minister Tanya Plibersek criticises hit reality TV show Married at First Sight for ‘messaging which encourages control and dehumanises women’ ...

Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek says the makers of MAFS should think twice before platforming such misogyny.

A man has been jailed for more than three years for strangulation, assault and using coercive and threatening behaviour to ...

A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation ...

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...

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 ...

A man accused of driving his wife to suicide developed software to track her, a police safeguarding officer has told a jury. Christopher Trybus, 43, of Swindon in Wiltshire, denies the manslaughter of ...