Australian Domestic and Family Violence Records
Classifiers for records that identify people affected by domestic and family violence, across all Australian jurisdictions and sectors: refuge and confidential addresses, protection orders and police directions, police incidents and referrals, criminal offence records, sexual assault counselling records, risk assessments and safety plans, case-record disclosures, and family and domestic violence leave. Every classifier requires a populated person, case or reference field before it enforces, so policy, guidance, statistics and blank forms stay at discovery level.
- Jurisdictions
- au
- Regulations
- Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
- Patterns
- 10
Patterns in this collection
Detects client, tenant, patient or customer case records that record a disclosure of domestic and family violence (DFV): case notes, intake assessments, service referrals and payment applications that name or number an individual and state that they have disclosed, experienced, fled or are at risk of DFV, coercive control or intimate partner violence. Sector-neutral: the same shape appears in housing, human services, health, education, justice and Commonwealth support records (Leaving Violence Program, the legacy Escaping Violence Payment, and Crisis Payment for extreme circumstances family and domestic violence). Also covers information-sharing requests and disclosures under Part 5A of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld) - s 169D (assessing a domestic violence threat), s 169E (responding to a serious domestic violence threat) and s 169F (police referral to a specialist DFV service provider) - made or received by prescribed entities (for example state schools, Hospital and Health Services, housing, corrections and police) and specialist DFV service providers, when the record names the requesting or disclosing entity, the person at risk or the person using violence, the information shared, the reason and the date. The Department of Education's Part 5A Instrument of Authorisation, which quotes s 169D verbatim, and the DFV Information Sharing Guidelines are decoys.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects records that disclose where a person at risk of domestic and family violence (DFV) is living or sheltering: refuge, shelter, safe house and crisis accommodation addresses, addresses flagged as confidential, suppressed or not to be disclosed, and silent elector entries. This is the highest-harm DFV disclosure, because it tells a person using violence where to find the victim-survivor. Sector-neutral: it applies to housing, human services, health, education, court, police, electoral and payroll records.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects charge sheets, court briefs, court lists, criminal histories and corrections records for domestic and family violence offences against an identified person: Queensland coercive control (Criminal Code s334C, from 26 May 2025) and engaging in domestic violence to aid a respondent (s179A); NSW abusive behaviour towards current or former intimate partners (Crimes Act s54D, from 1 July 2024); Tasmanian persistent family violence (Criminal Code s170A), economic abuse and emotional abuse or intimidation (Family Violence Act 2004 ss8-9); SA coercive control (Criminal Law Consolidation Act s20C, not yet proclaimed); contraventions of protection, intervention and restraining orders in every jurisdiction; and "domestic violence offence" notations (Qld Criminal Code s1 and Penalties and Sentences Act s12A; NSW Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act s12).
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects police domestic and family violence (DFV) incident records and the referrals police send to specialist and government services: Queensland QPRIME DV occurrences, Victoria Police L17 Family Violence Reports, NSW DV events, and DFV incident, call-out and attendance records in other jurisdictions. These records travel beyond police to housing, child safety, health, education and specialist DFV services, so they turn up in general agency mailboxes and file shares.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects domestic and family violence protection orders, police-issued notices and directions, and applications for them, in every Australian jurisdiction, when the document names the parties. Covers Qld protection orders, temporary protection orders, Police Protection Notices and Police Protection Directions; NSW apprehended domestic violence orders (including provisional orders); Vic family violence intervention orders and family violence safety notices; WA family violence restraining orders; SA intervention orders; Tas police family violence orders and family violence orders; ACT family violence orders (interim and after-hours); NT domestic violence orders; and recognised DVOs under the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme. Complements the Queensland-specific domestic-violence-order-application classifier.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects completed domestic and family violence (DFV) risk assessments, safety plans and multi-agency risk meeting records for an identified person, across Australian frameworks: Qld Common Risk and Safety Framework (CRASF), QPS Domestic Violence Protective Assessment Framework (DV-PAF) and High Risk Teams; NSW Domestic Violence Safety Assessment Tool (DVSAT) and Safety Action Meetings; Vic MARAM; WA CRARMF; SA and NT Family Safety Framework meetings and Positive Action Plans; NT RAMF Common Risk Assessment Tool; and generic DFV risk assessments and safety plans.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects HR, payroll and timesheet records showing that a named or numbered employee has taken or requested family and domestic violence (FDV) leave, and employee DFV support and workplace safety plans. Under Fair Work Act 2009 ss106A-106E every national-system employee is entitled to 10 days of paid FDV leave, and Fair Work Regulations 2009 reg 3.48 prevents FDV leave from being shown on pay slips because the record itself discloses that the employee is experiencing violence. Queensland public sector and state-system employees have DFV leave under the Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld) ss 52-54, and Queensland public service employees have additional support under Public Service Commission Directive 03/20 "Support for employees affected by domestic and family violence": confidentiality of disclosures, risk assessment and safety planning, changes to work location, hours, email addresses and telephone numbers, removal of public contact details, secure parking, flexible working arrangements, and support to transfer or relocate. Enterprise agreements and other directives and policies use the same terms.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects completed Notices of Child Abuse, Family Violence or Risk filed in parenting proceedings in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law Act 1975 ss67Z, 67ZBA, 69ZQ(1)(aa)), including the earlier "Notice of Child Abuse, Family Violence or Risk of Family Violence" and the Family Court of Western Australia Form 4 "Notice of Child Abuse and Family Violence (or Risk)". The notice records allegations of child abuse or neglect, family violence, substance misuse, mental health issues and abduction threats against named parties and children, and child abuse allegations are reported to the prescribed child welfare authority.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium
Detects domestic violence order applications and conditions under the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld). These documents contain details of aggrieved persons, respondent details, allegations of domestic violence, ouster conditions, and protection order terms. Disclosure could endanger the aggrieved person.
- Type
- keyword_proximity
- Confidence
- medium
Detects sexual assault counselling records and the legal material that seeks or protects them, for an identified person: counselling session notes, trauma counselling and victim/survivor support records, forensic medical examination referrals, specialist sexual assault service records (Queensland SARAS, Centres Against Sexual Assault, Yarrow Place, Sexual Assault Resource Centre, sexual assault response teams), and subpoena or privilege material about protected counselling communications — Qld sexual assault counselling privilege (Evidence Act 1977 Pt 2 Div 2A), NSW sexual assault communications privilege (Criminal Procedure Act 1986 ss295-306), Vic confidential communications (Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958 Div 2A), and WA, SA, Tas, ACT and NT equivalents. These records are subject to strong statutory privilege and carry the highest privacy protections — disclosure can re-traumatise survivors, compromise criminal proceedings, and endanger safety.
- Type
- regex
- Confidence
- medium