This is not the first time domestic violence has been declared a national crisis. Australian governments first got seriously involved in 1985. What can the past 40 years teach us?
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Activists are still pushing for the criminalisation of coercive control, for example, which refers to a pattern of behaviour that can include financial, psychological and verbal abuse. According to
Women s Legal Service NSW, coercive control was the most common risk factor in the lead up to domestic homicides in the state. You don t feel you re worth anything else.
Angelina s account of her partner s behaviour falls squarely into that pattern.
He questioned her spending habits even though they didn t share finances, to the point that she d have to pass new items off as gifts from friends or her mother.