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Phoebe Loomes

Coercive control to become crime in NSW

People who repeatedly subject their partner to physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse could face seven years jail under proposed NSW coercive control laws.

A draft of the landmark bill has been released by Attorney-General Mark Speakman for public comment, ahead of its introduction to parliament.

Last year the government committed to outlawing the historically overlooked form of intimate abuse known as coercive control as part of its response to a parliamentary inquiry.

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