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financial literacy strategy. However, there may be potential to develop new responses in this area. 38
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks Australia’s legal framework for dealing with family violence and safety is complex and includes state and territory and Commonwealth laws. In addition there are a large number of other legal frameworks which have some bearing on domestic and family violence. Rather than trying to capture the full breadth of frameworks the discussion in this section focuses on some key areas of law and regulation which have significance for understandings of and responses to economic abuse. These are: family violence family law victims’ compensation superannuation migration law consumer protection laws and regulations. This list by no means covers all areas of regulation that may be relevant. However, these areas have particular importance to economic abuse. The foregoing discussion of public policies captured issues in some other key areas of law, for example, child support and social security. Economic abuse in domestic and family violence laws Regulatory changes in some Australian states since the mid-2000s have seen the formal acknowledgement of economic abuse as a form of domestic and family violence in law and there is evidence of general support for this. For example, submissions in response to a recent proposal that all state and territory family violence legislation should expressly recognise economic abuse were reported as being “overwhelming (in) support” of the proposal (ALRC/NSWLRC 2010, p. 176). 10 However, economic abuse is not yet included in all state and territory legislation. In addition, there is no clear evidence that where there is legal recognition that this is reflected widely in legal actions and processes responding to domestic and family violence (ALRC/NSWLRC 2010). While the recency of some legislative changes makes it difficult to assess how they might impact on outcomes for women it is also the case that there are few readily identifiable sources of collated information concerning the outcomes of these provisions in legal processes and decisions. In the Victorian Government’s Family Violence Protection Act 2008 family violence has been defined as: (a) behaviour by a person towards a family member of that person if that behaviour is physically or sexually abusive; or is emotionally or psychologically abusive; or is economically abusive; or is threatening; or is coercive; or 10 Notably the Law Society of New South Wales opposed the inclusion of economic abuse on the grounds that it would be difficult to prove (ALRC/NSWLRC 2010, p. 216) 39
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Page 12 and 13: Overview This paper is organised as
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Page 24 and 25: Influences, Impacts and Points of I
Page 26 and 27: Particular vulnerabilities to econo
Page 28 and 29: Exploring the impacts of economic a
Page 30 and 31: Impacts relating to child support.
Page 32 and 33: Compared with 1995, people were mor
Page 34 and 35: Public Policies and Practices There
Page 36 and 37: the legal frameworks affecting dome
Page 38 and 39: In addition to family violence poli
Page 40 and 41: Centrelink may seek to recover paym
Page 42 and 43: Services staff providing customer s
Page 44 and 45: perpetrators to be excluded from th
Page 46 and 47: purpose is to “build the capacity
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Page 52 and 53: In its recent review the ALRC ident
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Page 58 and 59: establish if there is a need for re
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Page 62 and 63: Community Services Policies and Pra
Page 64 and 65: Financial counselling services are
Page 66 and 67: Conclusion: Community services resp
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