Recorded incidents of coercive control have increased across the Northern Rivers in the second year of NSW’s new coercive control laws, with 30 incidents recorded in the Richmond-Tweed region since the offence came into effect.

The whole world is experiencing what it’s like to be the victim of a coercive control relationship. Even here in Byron Bay our lives are being psychologically shaped, and materially impacted by the dementing malignant narcissist and his sadistic sidekick, with a pattern of abuse all too familiar, particularly to women. 

As we steadily count the climbing numbers of women who die almost weekly at the hands of someone within their own home, taking a closer look at how and why it happens provides the insight we need to make it stop.

Tonight in Mullumbimby the police, former magistrate David Heilpern, Mandy Nolan, and Greens MLC Sue Higginson will be part of a community meeting looking at the new coercive control laws that came into force on July 1. 

When you think of domestic violence (DV) often the first images that come to mind are physical: black eyes, broken bones, often cowering, and sometimes dead, women and children.

With new coercive control laws coming into effect on July 1, Greens candidate for Richmond, Mandy Nolan will hold community forums – along with other speakers – in Lennox Head and Mullumbimby, during July and August.

What is coercive control? Is it really something we can define and work out how to respond to? The answer is yes and tonight...

The NSW government has expanded its public awareness campaign on coercive control to include an in-language campaign for culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Today the NSW government is launching an advertising campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of coercive control.

It is easy to think we have almost achieved equality for men and women in a country like Australia – just as long as you don’t think too hard about it.