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Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University

New laws to tackle technology-based abuse in NSW are welcome. But police and courts also need to step up

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New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has committed to a range of reforms strengthening legal responses to family violence across the state. These reforms follow the alleged murder of 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst by her former partner earlier this year.

A key plank of the new reforms is a revision of stalking laws in the state. This revision will recognise the increasing role technologies such as GPS trackers play in family violence.

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