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30 Jun, 19 tweets, 4 min read
Calling her 45 times whilst she’s at work, then repeatedly calling her boss when she doesn’t answer, so frequently that she loses her job ..that…that will no longer be a legal behaviour.
Not allowing her to sit on chairs but demanding she sits on the floor, also won’t be legal
Asking her to document her toileting habits, minutes by minute accountability..won’t be legal anymore
Stopping her from spending time with friends and family..giving her an allowance …will no longer be legal
Not allowing her to eat so you can engage in particular sex acts will no longer be legal
Telling her to write lines over and over about how stupid she is…will no longer be legal
Forcing her to ring her friends and tell them she doesn’t want to see them anymore…also will not longer be legal
Not allowing her to go to the doctor to have her injuries reviewed, monitoring her Medicare use…monitoring her whereabouts..no longer legal..
Keeping her up all night with chores , lecturing her into the night, to induce exhaustion and debility…won’t be legal
Threatening to hurting pets or children…also will no longer be legal in Australia
Making her sit or kneel…for hours and hours …no longer will be legal in NSW
Disclaimer: As a doctor, I’m not allowed to publish anything that might identify a patient. But none of these examples do that, because I’ve seen all these behaviours in my patients…many many many times.
@Drhutch2011 @DLulabele @AbigailBoydMLC @TrishDoyleMP @yabbtopia @davtw2
This too 👇🏽👇🏽 also illegal
Trigger 😰….the replies to this thread …will hopefully make it clear why we fight so hard to have Coercive Control recognised as a crime
This stuff is real
So many messages today…reminding me of things I forgot to put on the list…sobering reminder of how many women this impacts.
But yes, not allowing her to comfort her crying infant…
Or making her walk on glass to get to her baby…
Will no longer be legal
Neither will quitting her job for her

Or repeatedly ringing for welfare checks

Or monitoring her whereabouts using apps or other devices

Making her take photos of herself to prove her location

Throwing away her contraceptive pills

All will be illegal behaviour

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🐀Dr Karen Williams MPH FRANZCP 🐀 Profile picture
28 May
***Thread ***Absolutely and utterly unsurprising, Remembering that in 2016 the NSW Sentencing Council at the time - consisting of 12 male and 3 female members found ‘no problem with the sentencing of DV offenders’ despite the disturbing facts that...
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20 May
Mon night on @TheFeedSBS NSW Police Officer McDermott said he respected my ‘opinion’ but I needed to know that @nswpolice WERE taking action on the vast majority of cases reported, that they WERE providing protection to ‘victims’, that they were WINNING & should be acknowledged
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19 May
1/ I am a WOC & I advocate for Coercive control laws. The systemic racial & misogynistic injustices in this system are abhorrent. Current laws have been written by white men, these laws will be different in that they reflect the experiences of women. We need to draw a clear line
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9 May
Thread: Outside Parl House tonight @davtw2 @FeeBenson
22 candles, to remember the 22 women lost to gender-based violence this year. It’s too easy to pretend these devastating losses are an inevitability. This is the lie our govt wants us to believe.We can stop these deaths if we
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2. provide extensive trauma based psychological care for her & the children to enable healing & separation
3. Start believing women when they report abuse
4. Start believing the children who report abuse
5. Stop facilitating the myth that women make up allegations of abuse as a strategy
6. Help women to secure evidence with cameras & recording devices
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8. Recognise the literature that demonstrates
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1. APOLOGIES long and TRIGGERing thread.
Murder/ psychopathy/ #familyviolence

“He told me I wasn’t going to be with anyone else he told me I was going to die”
Police / lawyers think these things are said in anger or frustration. They tell victims to “block him” or “report him”
2.But victims recognise the PSYCHOPATH they live with. They’re not wrong. They know him. They wish they were wrong & are forever trying to talk themselves into believing it’s their fault. To imagine otherwise is even more horrific @CCCBuryStEd @thecrimeanalyst @JaneCaro
3. They are not exaggerating. They are not neurotic or crazy.
These women have lived day in & day out with them & know what he is capable of.
If she fears her life- she is correct in her assessment. It should never, EVER be dismissed. @MFWitches @earthma23 @davtw2 @FeeBenson
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Thread. His adult daughter was terrified of him. When her house was listed for sale he deliberately booked an inspection so he could intimidate her walking through her home. He turned up at his ex wife’s yoga class, where she saw him behind her in the mirror. #coercivecontrol
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