New laws to criminalise coercive control

Article here. It outlaws Dark Triad personalities. I get it. But 2 things: it won't be used against female Dark Triads and it can easily be abused to go after otherwise innocent men whose only crime was getting involved with a nutter. Excerpt:

'New family violence reforms to create a standalone criminal offence of coercive control have passed the Parliament.

Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny in her second reading speech said family violence was ‘the number one law and order issue that is destroying lives, harming children across generations and destabilising homes, communities and our broader society’.

She said the Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence, Coercive Control, Good Character, Risk Assessment and Other Matters) Bill 2026, was ‘about listening and responding to the voices of victim-survivors,' adding that the reforms would 'prioritise victim-survivor safety, improve the efficiency of justice processes and ensure perpetrators of all forms of interpersonal violence can be held to account'.

She described coercive control as ‘an insidious form of abuse used, usually by a man, to intimidate, humiliate, surveil, gaslight or isolate another person, usually a female intimate partner, and strip them of their sense of autonomy and self-worth so as to have control over them’.

The bill also abolishes the use of 'good character' as a mitigating factor in sentencing and introduces a new protected attribute of 'subjection to family violence' under the Equal Opportunity Act.'