"The time is right for the introduction of specific stalking laws so that perpetrators' behaviour can be fully taken into account before sentencing".
It will also fund a multi-disciplinary centre staffed by police, sexual assault and family violence experts and child protection staff for women and children who experience sexual assault; a trial of GPS monitoring of high-risk perpetrators; behaviour change programs for men in prison for family violence offences; and additional legal support for women.
Working on the principle that a reduction in the number of victims can only come through a reduction in the number of abusers, the Drive project will develop, test and evaluate a new model aimed at changing perpetrators' behaviour to keep their partners and families safe.
Women survivors of IPV were interviewed to explore individual experiences of IPV and their opinions on the causes of specific perpetrators' behaviour.
Peer pressure, she said, in particular condemnation by other men, as well legal repercussions, has been shown to create a change in the perpetrator's behaviour.
But chief executive of Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia, Karen Willis, said that the $30m spent on the campaign "wasn't very good expenditure", and that the money could have better targeted at programs like counselling which change perpetrator's behaviour, or services which support survivors.
A review of interventions for perpetrators, including behaviour change programs, and the strength of those programs should be carried out by an expert committee, the commission recommends, while the attendance of men to counselling service and behaviour change programs should be monitored.
The upshot was that she was not frightened out of her tenancy and a strong message was sent to the perpetrator that his behaviour was unacceptable.
It may explain the way the headmaster targeted me in the following years, singling me out in front of the school as a fraud, a failure and a perpetrator of "filthy behaviour".
However in discussing the abuse, service providers often framed disability as "the problem", rather than the perpetrator's criminal behaviour.
