Over the past few years, there has been a growing conversation about coercive control in romantic relationships. 

Last year, NSW became the first state in Australia to criminalise coercive control shortly followed by Queensland.

Now, new research from eSafety has looked into how this is playing out on, or even being fast-tracked by, technology.  Essentially, they wanted to know - what attitudes and behaviours have become normalised amongst younger generations who have grown up in the digital age, that actually could be a red flag for coercive control? For example, how many people think it’s normal and healthy to track their partner’s location? 

We'll dive deeper in today's podcast.

Hosts: Billi FitzSimons and Sam Koslowski
Producer: Orla Maher

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