What is “Coercive Control” and why is it suddenly in the news?
The Premier’s recent announcement that there will be a taskforce set up to investigate Coercive Control laws, to be chaired by Justice Margaret McMurdo, former president of the Queensland Court of Appeal, is welcome news. Effectively the role of the taskforce is to investigate and report back on how best to introduce legislation to criminalise this behaviour.
The term “coercive control” may be fairly unfamiliar to many, however in a nutshell it is a non-physical…