Domestic and Family Violence Act 2007

(1) Emotional or psychological abuse is conduct that would torment, coerce, intimidate, harass or be offensive to a reasonable person and result in a reasonable person suffering emotional distress or mental harm.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), emotional or psychological abuse of a person may include any of the following conduct:

(b) threatening to disclose sensitive information about the person to the person's friends, family or workplace;

(d) preventing the person from maintaining social, familial or cultural connections;

(e) preventing the person from expressing the person's cultural identity;

(f) threatening to self-harm with the intention of tormenting the person;

(g) threatening to harm another person with the intention of tormenting the person;

(h) following the person in public or in the person's residence or remaining outside the person's residence or work with the intention of tormenting the person;

(i) repeatedly contacting the person by any means of communication without the person's consent;

(j) sending offensive material or communications to the person or leaving offensive material where it is likely to be found by the person;

(l) threatening to distribute or publish an intimate image of the person;

(m) publishing offensive material or communications about the person without consent;

(n) driving a motor vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner or acting in a reckless or dangerous manner while driving a motor vehicle when the person is a passenger in the vehicle;

(o) threatening to request that the person be assessed to determine whether the person is in need of treatment under the Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998;

(q) preventing the person from entering the person's place of residence.

(3) In deciding whether a person's conduct amounts to emotional or psychological abuse, consideration may be given to a pattern of conduct.