Rather than focusing on specific cultural practices, we need to concentrate on all forms of economic abuse as coercive control.
- Adjunct professor, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
A study finds financial abuse can be disguised as care and is tied into social values of the Anglo-Celtic and Indian communities.
To formulate better policy on family violence, we need to understand economic abuse.
With fewer options available to send much-needed money to their family overseas, migrant communities fear severe consequences.
Next week, Australian bank Westpac will become the last of the big four banks to stop serving money transfer operators, amid concerns about breaching laws on money laundering and terrorist financing. There…
“This house, Australia. This house, Australia. This house, Australia,” says Mohinder (a pseudonym) 29, pointing out that young men from six of the 13 houses in his alley in TarnTaran have migrated. “That…
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