Amanda Gearing

Hearing from Amanda Gearing, PhD on Friday speak about the work she has been doing, and continues to do, to identify the concerning behaviours which are classified as coercive control was immensely helpful, particularly for use in practice given many…

Australia’s first laws to make coercive control a crime must be expanded to include rape in relationships as well as stalking and other forms of violence, according to the international expert who coined the term. Prof Evan Stark and his wife, Anne,…

Queensland is leading Australia through a cultural and legal transformation to criminalise coercive control, a pattern of behaviours that is highly correlated with the risk of domestic harm and homicide. The state’s premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk,…

NSW has recommended that coercive control should become a criminal offence.

Preliminary findings of my national survey on coercive control in Australia. Domestic Violence Survey:Australia 2021.

Domestic Violence Survey: Australia 2021 "The process of understanding coercive control is very much in its infancy in Australia. Tragically, we often don’t recognise the signs until it is too late. Gathering better data about offences and offenders…

The death of Hannah Clarke and her three young children on in February 2020 on a footpath in Camp Hill in Brisbane opened our collective eyes to the devastating failures of authorities to protect victims of domestic abuse from being murdered. Over…

Intimate partner homicides are not crimes of passion. They are premeditated crimes of coercion and control. Hannah Clarke’s parents are calling for Australian laws to make coercive control a crime.

The parents of Hannah Clarke have welcomed moves to criminalise coercive control in Queensland as they approach the first anniversary of their daughter’s murder by her husband. The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced the formation of…

Coercive control: Hannah Clarke’s parents on the abuse that preceded their daughter’s murder The murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by her former partner in February provoked widespread soul-searching about the lives lost to domestic…

Their learning curve in 2020 has been steep and brutal. Now the parents of Hannah Clarke, murdered with her three children, want to raise awareness Full Story podcast: Hannah Clarke’s parents on the abuse that preceded their daughter’s murder Grief’s…

I’m trying to work out what to do before I end up in a body bag but that seems unavoidable right now. This was one of the first replies this month to my research questionnaire on domestic violence. The participant is a young lawyer in regional…