New $5 Million coercive control campaign critical to tackling domestic violence

This week, the WA Government launched a new $5 million campaign to raise awareness of coercive control in relationships. The state-wide campaign will highlight that family and domestic violence is not just physical … and will educate the public on the dangers of coercive control and how it can be subtle and hard to detect, even for the victim.
Premier Roger Cook on delivering the announcement of the campaign said, “Coercive control is tracking your partner, it’s isolating them from friends and family it’s taking control of their finances and gaslighting.”

Curtin University Professor of Social Work and Social Policy Donna Chung joins On The Record’s Danae Gibson to discuss the impact around the campaign and what it means.

“One of the things that is so important about this is that since this happens in the privacy of peoples homes, you don’t know what goes on when it’s out of sight. When police turn up and there are family there, they can feel the tension but can’t see anything going on. You don’t have supports in place, that you may have had before the relationship developed.”

For more information on the campaign, click here.