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 ...

Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs Photo ...

Coercive or controlling behaviour has been placed “on a par” with other domestic abuse offences as part of a new law aiming ...

Love bombing is considered to be an abuse tactic wherein one person showers the other with affection, compliments, gifts, and attention in order to gain their trust and control or manipulate them. The ...

Proposed laws, agreed to by shadow cabinet on Thursday, would see abusers found guilty of coercive control jailed for up to seven years under a Coalition policy — with Labor also leaving the door open ...

Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

New Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has vowed to push the laws through parliament in her first 100 days in office if efforts to introduce them to parliament next week are blocked by the Allan government ...