"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

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 ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

Domestic abuse is insidious, with a few warning signs within a new relationship overlooked in that hazy, rose-tinted euphoric stage of falling in love.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A councillor arrested last year on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour will face no further police action. Adam ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

Authorities are struggling to successfully prosecute domestic and family offenders under Australia’s new Coercive Control laws. Despite recording nearly 300 incidents last year, only nine coercive ...

Alexandra Sidoti, senior ombudsman with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, said it is “a bit of a funny space around these” because sometimes it is not clear to see the conduct or it is ...