The Palaszczuk government has unveiled a “historic overhaul of laws and practices” to better protect Queensland women from domestic and family violence and hold perpetrators to account.
Included in the reforms are laws and programs to recognise, prevent and punish coercive control, including making coercive control a criminal offence, a commission of inquiry into police practices and expansion of the Domestic and Family Violence courts.
The state government will introduce a bill to criminalise coercive control by the end of 2023, the Premier and A-G said.
Ms Fentiman (pictured): “Our systems need to respond better to this unique form of violence and we need to shift our focus from responding to single incidents of violence to the pattern of abusive behaviour that occurs over time.
Source: Qld to criminalise coercive control – Lawyers Weekly
Why does this remind me of the OGLYO Manual on how to get your legislation through parliament without people noticing? Put forward the positive – as in stopping DV (by criminalising coercive control) – while hiding the negative (including ‘gender identity’ as an untouchable which it is claimed is subject to horrendous coercive control under the guise of ‘conversion therapy’). Has anybody read the fine print?
I haven’t read the Bill yet but I share your concerns.