Domestic and family violence is a widespread and serious problem in Australia: yet, it is a problem that is preventable. An important key to creating change is to get educated. Learn more about the complex issue of domestic abuse with these resources below.
Video – Coercive Control
Coercive control is a type of domestic abuse that is a pattern of behaviour used by an abuser to control, harm, punish, or frighten someone they are in a relationship with. Does someone in your life behave like this?
Threatening, Harassing, Assuming consent, Stalking, Gaslighting, Financial abuse, Isolating, Blaming, Technological abuse, Interrogating, Degrading, Humiliating
Short film – ‘Silenced’
‘Silenced’ is a short film brought to you by Got Your Back Sista, funded by the City of Newcastle and produced by Limelight Creative Media. It aims to bring awareness to the impact of domestic violence on children who have both witnessed and/or been abused themselves: domestic violence through the eyes of a child.