Find out more: Coercive control laws | Need to know | Queensland Government

What’s on at WorkUP

Across 2025 and beyond, WorkUP is supporting the sector with a range of professional development opportunities to help you and your team understand and work with the coercive control laws. Check out our Whats on page to find out more.

For example:

• Coercive Control and Social Entrapment Workshop Series
• SPARK webinar: What happens when you criminalise coercive control?
• Responding together: A practitioner roundtable on coercive control legislation

Practitioner tools

Common Risk & Safety Framework

The CRASF framework and accompanying tools have been developed to support a shared understanding and response to domestic and family violence by services and agencies in Queensland.

• The Department of Justice and the Attorney General in 2024, produced a webinar exploring how to appropriately identify and discuss coercive control, documentation and recording, and Queensland’s coercive control legislation. View the webinar here: Coercive Control Webinar
• Access the framework, tools, training and resources via: https://www.justice.qld.gov.au/about-us/services/women-violence-prevention/violence-prevention/service-providers/integrated-service-responses/dfv-common-risk-safety-framework

Other Training Available

Two foundational modules developed by the Queensland government are available online at QCDFVR:

• Module 1: Coercive control and domestic and family violence training (approx. 50 minutes to complete)
• Module 2: Coercive control and the law training (approx. 30 minutes to complete).

Access both courses via https://noviolence.org.au/learn/coercive-control-modules/.

You can also access these resources and more information via the Queensland Government Need to know: Coercive control site.

Central Qld University (CQU) offers a micro-credential course “Understanding the dynamics of Coercive Control”.  For a small fee you can access this self-paced, two hour learning module and receive a digital badge and certificate of completion. You do not need to be an existing CQU student to complete this course:

PDC87397 – Understanding the Dynamics of Coercive Control.

You may also be interested in

Reading the short explanatory note which describes the changes to the law and the intentions underlying the changes: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/published.exp/sl-2024-0146

Reading the Criminal Law (Coercive Control and Affirmative Consent) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 in full: https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/asmade/act-2024-005

Reading the Coercive Control Communication Framework. Developed in response to recommendations 5 and 8 from the Hear her Voice Report 1, this framework describes the communication strategy to increase community awareness and understanding of the changes to the law: https://www.justice.qld.gov.au/initiatives/end-domestic-family-violence/our-progress/shifting-community-attitudes-behaviours/coercive-control-communication-framework

Understanding the domestic and family violence (DFV) training and change management framework. The framework guides the alignment of training for staff and organisations working across the DFV and justice service systems toward a consistent, evidence-based, trauma-informed and person-centred response to victim-survivors of DFV and persons who use violence. Access it here: DFV training and change management framework

Learning more about the background to the May criminalisation of Coercive Control. Listen to a youtube clip Hear her voice – the first report from the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TY58LkZ4Y

Support for victims

Victim Assist Queensland is a government service that supports victims of violent crime—including domestic and family violence—by providing financial assistance, free counselling, court support, and help with victim impact statements, aiming to aid recovery and uphold victims’ rights. https://www.qld.gov.au/law/crime-and-police/victims-and-witnesses-of-crime

Victims may also be able to register to the Corrective Services Victims Register, which may give you access to information about adult offenders. You can find out more here: https://www.qld.gov.au/law/your-rights/victim-rights-and-complaints/victims-registers/adult

The Charter of Victims’ Rights describes the rights of victims interacting with government funded services. You can access the charter and and order copies of the charter via the Office of the Victims’ Commissioner website. https://www.victimscommissioner.qld.gov.au/for-support-services