This submission adapts the principles-led framework previously developed for the Second Action Plan to End Violence against Women and Children to the narrower statutory task under section 54J of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). It focuses on the policy objectives and terms of Part 3, Division 6A, its operation, its impact on communities, and the evidence needed to determine whether change is justified.
This submission also addresses broader systemic matters only to the extent that they bear directly on the policy objectives, operation, training, monitoring or community impacts of Part 3, Division 6A and the matters specified in section 54J. It does not ask this review to determine family-law disputes or create a separate offence of ‘parental alienation’ or any other offence.
It asks the review to ensure that serious conduct which intentionally uses a child or a safe parent–child relationship to coerce or control a current or former intimate partner is recognised and investigated under the existing offence where its elements may be satisfied.