You could be experiencing domestic violence if your partner is:

• Criticising, humiliating and insulting you or calling you names
• Making it difficult for you to see friends and relatives or stopping you from doing so
• Depriving you of basic necessities such as money, food and shelter
• Making you have sex against your will
• Frightening you by damaging your house, furniture or other possessions
• Harming or threatening to harm your pets
• Threatening to hurt you
• Shaking, pushing or shoving you
• Checking your letters emails and phone calls
• Denying your access to ceremonies, land or preventing you practising your beliefs
• Slapping, kicking or punching you
• Using weapons such as knives to threaten you
• Threatening to call and have your visa revoked, or criticising your cultural background
• Undermining your parenting

Domestic violence is an offence under the Family Violence Act 2004.

In an Emergency call 000