News; Crime/Public Safety; Protection orders are meant to keep domestic violence victims safe, but that doesn’t always happen May 11, 2021 Updated Sun., May 16, 2021 at 10:06 a.m. (Molly Quinn ...

Even with a protection order, many forms of abuse, such as harassment, slander, filing false reports with child protection, or other forms of retaliation, can be hard to stop.

Protection orders form a central plank of the various state and territory governments’ response to domestic violence. First introduced in New South Wales in the 1980s and known by a different ...

These orders are likely to become quite common, because they will be listed as a possible box to check on the standard Petition for Protection Order form (p. 5, item M).