DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 11 Meaning of emotional or psychological abuse

DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2012 - SECT 11

11 Meaning of emotional or psychological abuse

"Emotional or psychological abuse" means behaviour, or a pattern of behaviour, by a person towards another person that torments, intimidates, harasses or is offensive to the other person.

Examples—

• following a person when the person is out in public, including by vehicle or on foot

• remaining outside a person’s residence or place of work

• repeatedly contacting a person by telephone, SMS message, email or social networking site without the person’s consent

• repeated derogatory taunts, including racial taunts

• threatening to disclose a person’s sexual orientation to the person’s friends or family without the person’s consent

• threatening to withhold a person’s medication

• preventing a person from making or keeping connections with the person’s family, friends or culture, including cultural or spiritual ceremonies or practices, or preventing the person from expressing the person’s cultural identity