Calls for national definition of domestic and family violence a year on from Hannah Clarke murder

Australia needs a consistent and national definition of family and domestic violence that captures the many abusive and manipulative tactics used by perpetrators, according to Federal Labor and frontline advocates.

One year on from the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by Rowan Baxter in Queensland, the opposition is calling on the federal government to work with states and territories to come up with a nationally agreed-upon definition, which includes coercive control at its…