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Subject matter experts, including RLC solicitor Jasmine Opdam discuss what you should know about financial abuse and where you can go to get help.

RLC financial abuse solicitor Jasmine Opdam recently spoke to Body+Soul as part of a series highlighting the experience of financial abuse survivors, financial abuse warning signs and where to get help. Sarrah Le Marquand (editor-in-chief) and Danielle Miller report for Body + Soul.

Ella, whose real name cannot be used for legal reasons, is still paying off $60 000 in debt piled on her by her former partner more than three years after she escaped the abusive relationship. Lucy Cormack reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Economic abuse is really pervasive where family violence is present," said Alison Macdonald, the CEO Of Domestic Violence Victoria.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Thursday 5 December 2019

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 Safer Pathway, the NSW Government’s innovative collaborative service delivery response to domestic violence is expanding into the inner west of Sydney.

Hon Tanya Plibersek and Hon Mark Dreyfus have today announced $1.8 million in funding for Community Legal Centres over the next 3 years, with a focus on legal services assisting victims of domestic violence.

Following revelations that a traumatised recent victim of domestic violence with a new baby was charged $38,000 undertake a diploma level course delivered by a private college, Labor MPs Kim Carr and Sharon Bird have again written the Australian National Audit Office calling for a review of the VET Fee-Help.

The scourge of domestic violence continues to rise in some of Sydney’s most affluent suburbs, with Rose Bay police confirming it received up to two calls on the matter each day.

Women's rights advocates have called for an overhaul of the way the Government deals with domestic violence to stop the rising number of women being killed.