⚠️ WARNING: This story contains descriptions of family and sexual violence.
Coercive control is a pattern of controlling and manipulative behaviour that, from today will be a crime in Queensland. With a maximum jail sentence of 14 years, the domestic violence sector is hopeful it'll deter the insidious offending.
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