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New Victorian opposition leader targets coercive control in first major policy move
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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The Victorian opposition will seek to criminalise coercive control when parliament sits next week. It's the first policy announced by new Liberal leader Jess Wilson at a rally against gendered violence.
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Hundreds of women calling for what should be the bare minimum.
00:06
What are you here for?
00:07
A march against family violence bringing city streets to a standstill
00:13
to spotlight a deadly problem.
00:15
When 95% of violence in our community has been committed by men and boys,
00:20
we have to go, well, what's going on there and how do we change that?
00:22
The family violence crime rate continues to rise up 9% in the 12 months to July.
00:28
106,000 incidents were recorded across Victoria last year.
00:34
This is preventable.
00:35
We don't need to have violence at these levels,
00:37
so we absolutely have to keep demanding change.
00:40
The new opposition leader is hoping to be part of that change,
00:43
promising to criminalise coercive control.
00:47
By criminalising this, we are demonstrating that it's not acceptable,
00:51
that it is a crime, and we'll get a better sense
00:53
of how we can actually prevent it into the future.
00:55
Coercive control includes behaviour like financial abuse,
00:58
and is often a precursor to other forms of violence.
01:02
This will become a stand-alone offence,
01:04
and there will be a stand-alone sentence for this,
01:06
modelled on the New South Wales provisions,
01:08
so a seven-year maximum.
01:10
It's currently covered by wider family violence laws,
01:13
but isn't identified as a specific offence.
01:16
This doesn't need to be a political issue.
01:18
This is about ensuring that women are safe,
01:21
and we're calling out behaviour that is happening too often in our community.
01:24
We have a long history in Victoria of family violence being a bipartisan issue.
01:28
The opposition's coercive control laws will be introduced next week,
01:32
ahead of Parliament's Christmas break.
01:34
But Jess Wilson's first big policy push could face a short shelf life,
01:38
with the government suggesting it's exploring its own version of the laws.
01:42
Definitely.
01:42
We have to continue our work,
01:43
with theals.
01:45
That's lovely.
01:45
We have to continue the solution in theلام
01:47
of all
01:57
This is someone across the field.
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