Queensland sets up taskforce to investigate coercive control laws one year after Hannah Clarke’s murder

The Queensland Government has announced plans to set up an independent taskforce to consult on potential coercive control legislation, almost a year since Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke and her three children were murdered by her estranged husband.

The group will consult domestic violence survivors, service providers, lawyers, and the general community on factors to consider in designing the new legislation.

Ms Clarke’s family have been campaigning for the behaviour — which includes things like controlling a person’s access to money, who they see, what they wear, and tracking where they go — to be made a crime.

The Government had already committed to making coercive control a crime within the current term of parliament and said the…