Research and Public Policy Series

Appendix 3 : Protection order legislation

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Violence against women in Australia : key research and data issues
Judy Putt and Karl Higgins
ISBN 0 642 24031 0 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1997
(Research and Public Policy Series, no. 6)
{Cover title: Violence against women in Australia}

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Abstract

In order to provide an illustration of the problems that exist in comparing protection order statistics at a national level that arise from legislative differences, the authors have summarised and compared protection order legislation in Australian in force as of March 1995 in a table which lists jurisdiction, legislation, protective elements, onus of proof, related legislation, length of order and maximum breach penalty. In a separate table, they present an overview of other legislative protections that work to support protection order legislation.