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What is Family violence?
Family violence is destructive behaviour used to dominate, control, or threaten a member of the family. It contains:

Physical activities, like pushing or striking someone, sexual acts, like pressing someone to participate in an uncomfortable way sexually, emotional or psychological acts, such limiting who someone can see or go with or calling them names, and financial acts, like dictating how someone spends their money.
Children are also protected by the law if they witness, hear, or otherwise come into contact with familial violence. If a child is involved:

When the police are called, a family violence episode is in progress when a member who has been assaulted notices damaged property in the family home.
All reports of Family violence require a police response. They must prioritise a person’s and their children’s protection, so they can act even if a person asks them not to.

A family violence intervention order is what?
It is a legally binding document with the purpose of protecting the individual, their children, and their property.

To prevent the respondent from employing family violence against the protected person, the order contains conditions.

Depending on the circumstances, the law may demand that the respondent:

Stop the behaviour, do not speak to or communicate with the protected person, or have someone else handle it for you. Also, do not visit or be close to the protected person.
The magistrate has additional powers, including the ability to revoke or suspend the respondent’s firearms permits.

A civil matter is an order of intervention. It becomes a crime if the terms are broken.