Coercive control is one of the most insidious forms of family abuse. Today the states, territory and federal attorneys general will try to come up with a more unified approach to the problem. Now that Australia's passed the peak of the current Omicron wave, many of us just want normal life to resume, but Prof Jodie McVernon says it's not that simple. And nearly six months after the catastrophic floods in northern New South Wales, 550 indigenous Australians remain homeless.