Building Australia’s Future: Labor’s Commitment to Women

Minister for Women Katy Gallagher has launched Building Australia’s Future: Labor’s Commitment to Women, which includes new practical steps to address financial abuse in Commonwealth systems, such as: 

• Preventing perpetrators from using the tax and corporate systems to create debts as a form of coercive control and make perpetrators accountable for these debts if they do. 

• Looking at making perpetrators liable for social security debts incurred by a victim-survivor due to coercion or financial abuse.  

• Looking at how to stop perpetrators of domestic and family violence from receiving their victim’s superannuation after death. 

The plan in full can be accessed here.