Queensland’s landmark coercive control laws have delivered just two prison sentences in five months, leaving more than 150 victims waiting for justice. The exclusive data, obtained by The Courier-Mail ...

The federal government’s plan to name femicide in the Criminal Code and introduce measures to reduce violence against women is being lauded by advocates who have long worked for stricter penalties for ...

The federal government is making changes to Canada’s Criminal Code to treat killings driven by control, hate, sexual violence or exploitation as first-degree murder, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said ...

The federal government is aiming to toughen the Criminal Code with a new justice bill that proposes a wide range of measures, including several aimed at reducing violence against women in Canada. If ...

A formal recommendation for the federal government to add “coercive control” to the Criminal Code came from an inquest several years earlier that examined the circumstances around the 2015 killings of ...

Jessica Seage fought for six years for the man who raped her to be convicted. Experts say her experience is a stark example of how perpetrators abuse the system to inflict more pain on their victims.