Criminal Code Act 1995

A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if he or she carries out the conduct constituting the offence under duress.

A person carries out conduct under duress if and only if he or she reasonably believes that:

a threat has been made that will be carried out unless an offence is committed; and

there is no reasonable way that the threat can be rendered ineffective; and

the conduct is a reasonable response to the threat.

This section does not apply if the threat is made by or on behalf of a person with whom the person under duress is voluntarily associating for the purpose of carrying out conduct of the kind actually carried out.