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MPs push for national approach to criminalising coercive control
9News Staff
Domestic abuse doesn't always involve violence — and that's why three women in federal parliament are calling for a national approach to criminalising behaviours known as "coercive control".
Labor MPs Dr Anne Aly and Linda Burney along with independent Senator Jacqui Lambie have each experienced coercive control, and shared their stories with Nine Federal Politics reporter Fiona Willan.
See the full interview above.
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