This article contains references to domestic violence.
Religious values can be misused to justify abuse, an advisor for Anglicare Sydney has told a state parliamentary inquiry into coercive control.
Ms Lynda Dunstan, Family and Domestic Violence Advisor of Anglicare Sydney, appeared at the third day of the NSW Parliament s Committee on Wednesday as part of an inquiry into whether coercive control should be made a criminal offence.
Ms Dunstan said Anglicare, a not-for-profit organisation of the Anglican Church, supports criminalisation as a way of recognising this insidious pattern of behaviours and the devastating impact it has on its victims .
She noted the specific challenges and impacts for predominantly women from different religious and cultural backgrounds.
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Advocates for migrant and refugee women have called for caution amid a push to criminalise coercive control in domestic relationships, warning it could lead to more harm within vulnerable communities.
There are growing calls to make intimidation, stalking and other forms of coercive control illegal under reforms to domestic violence laws across Australia, with federal politicians, families of victims and journalists joining a campaign urging states and territories to outlaw this form of domestic violence.
“It is really a pervasive problem that affects terribly the lives of people who find themselves in these kinds of situations,” said Labor s families spokeswoman Linda Burney, who is part of the campaign run by Marie Claire magazine.
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