The Member for Waterford and State Attorney General Shannon Fentiman has said new laws to protect victims of domestic violence will take time to get right.
An independent taskforce was announced last week, which will advise the State Government on potential coercive control laws, criminalising behaviour like controlling someone’s finances and tracking their whereabouts.
The taskforce is due to report back to the government by October.
The Waterford MP was under pressure from the LNP Opposition in State Parliament yesterday, to speed up the process..
“We have to actually do the work, to get it right” she told Parliament.
She was responding to a question from the member for Mudgeeraba Ros Bates.
