Jessica Page: Three years after it was promised, there is still no date for coercive control legislation

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Three years after it was promised, there is no date for coercive control legislation. And lives hang in the balance.

In November 2023, the Cook Government promised “prevention, protection and prosecution” when reforms to target coercive control were first announced. Three years later, the key legislation has stalled. In the meantime, lives have been lost. Labor committed to a “phased approach” to criminalise coercive control five months before Mark Bombara launched his horrific search for his estranged wife and killed her friend Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her daughter, 18-year-old Gretl, instead. It was an evil act that shocked Australia and remains difficult to comprehend. But it was not impossible to predict — and that is something we need to reckon with.

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