What if you need urgent ABORIGINAL VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND police protection? FAMILY VIOLENCE IN NSW NSW Attorney Generals Department Victims Dial Triple 000 if you feel threatened Services Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or worried about your safety and need Contact Line Phone – 1800 019 123 immediate protection. POLICE CAN ISSUE AN APPREHENDED NSW Rape Crisis Centre DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORDER IMMEDIATELY Phone – 1800 424 017 FOR YOUR PROTECTION. Web – www.rapecrisis.com.au Domestic

A police issued ADVO is effective immediately Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s and Family for your protection but you will still have to Legal Centre attend court to finalise the order. Phone – 1800 686 587 Violence Web – www.wirringabaiya.org.au Working Together to Build AN ADVO DOES NOT GIVE AN OFFENDER a Safer Community A CRIMINAL RECORD. BY TAKING OUT Indigenous Women’s Legal Contact Line AN ADVO, YOU ARE HELPING PROTECT Phone – 1800 639 784 YOURSELF, YOUR CHILDREN, FAMILY Web – www.womenslegalnsw.asn.au AND COMMUNITY. Domestic Violence 24 hour Helpline Who can give me more information Phone – 1800 65 64 63 about going to court? Kids Helpline Contact your local police station. They will Phone – 1800 551 800 be able to help you or refer you to services in Web – www.kidshelp.com.au your area that can help. You can also ask to speak to a Domestic Violence Liaison Officer FaCs Child Protection Helpline (DVLO) or Aboriginal Community Liaison Phone – 132 111 Officer (ACLO). They will be able to tell you VOCAL (Victims of Crime League) what your rights are.. Phone – 02 49614755 Domestic Violence Evidence in NSW Elder Abuse Helpline Chief (DVEC) Phone – 1800 628 221 (“Evidence in Chief ” means that victims/ witnesses can tell their story in their own words)

POLICE DVEC allows police to video or audio record AN SBELI G A/ Y statements taken from domestic violence victims, that can be used as all or part of their LIAISON OFFICER evidence in court. NSW Police Force is committed to working in What are some examples of Violence is still a crime even if the offender is a family member or a loved one. partnership with Aboriginal people to protect Domestic /Family Violence? victims of domestic and family violence. You might be afraid to tell the police if you have • Physical or sexual assault – like hitting, been a victim of domestic or family violence kicking, strangulation or any unwanted sexual What is Domestic and because you’re not sure what the police will do behaviour or sexual assault. Family Violence? once you take a report. The police can help by telling you what will happen once you make a Domestic and family violence is a crime that • Verbal abuse and insults – yelling, shouting, swearing, putting a person down. report and what support services can help you. takes many forms including emotional, verbal, spiritual and psychological abuse, intimidation, • Isolation – keeping a person away from their What can be done? harassment, stalking, physical, choking and supports like friends and family or controlling Police can arrest and charge a person who is violent sexual assault. It can include animal abuse by the where a person goes and who they see. towards you. They can apply for Apprehended offender, targeting pets and damaging personal • Financial – taking or controlling a person’s Domestic Violence Order on your behalf. Your or joint property. Domestic and family violence money or how they spend it, stealing. children can be included on the ADVO and they can is committed by one person against the person get supported too. they live with or ex-partner. The offender can • Emotional abuse – telling a person they are also be a family or extended family member. worthless, bad or not valued or loved. An ADVO is an order made to protect people fromviolence, threats and harassment. Police must Victims of domestic and family violence can be • Threats and intimidation – scaring a apply for an ADVO on your behalf if they suspect women, men, children, young people, mothers, person by telling them they will be hurt by an that violence has been or is likely to be committed fathers, aunties, uncles, Elders, and carers. act of violence. against you or your children. They can be anyone in an close relationship • Harassment and stalking – following Extra conditions can be included on the order if including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, somebody, unwanted contact (like phone calls, they are needed. For example, an order can state intersex and queer people. SMS, Facebook), turning up at places where a that the offender must not approach you within victim is (like their home or workplace). 12 hours of drinking alcohol or taking illegal drugs. Anyone can commit acts of violence on members of their family, extended family • “Outing” or threatening to “out” someone’s VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE VICTIMS FAULT or community can be anyone within the sexuality or gender identity with the intent IT IS THE OFFENDERS FAULT. community, even people in positions of power. to cause damage to someone’s reputation or cause trouble in their family. What happens if the offender breaks DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE Why should it be reported to one of the conditions of the ADVO? HURTS WOMEN, CHILDREN, FAMILIES the police? If an offender breaks one of the conditions, you AND COMMUNIITIES. Domestic and family violence is a crime. It has should immediately contact your local police and devastating and long-lasting effects on whole report it. The police may arrest and charge the Police may apply for an Apprehended families and communities. offender with ‘breaching’ the conditions of the ADVO. Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) for your It can be hard to tell the police if you have been a protection even if you don’t want one. victim of violence, especially if the person who hurt you is a family member or someone you love. It is not a dog act to call the cops on a woman basher, it’s a dog act NOT to. Don’t stand by, Just because the offender is a family member or stand up! Report Domestic Violence. partner, it does not give them the right to hurt you.