Tricked or forced out of Australia: the vulnerable women at the centre of a hidden domestic violence crisis

Tricked or forced out of Australia: the vulnerable women at the centre of a hidden domestic violence crisis

Migration advocates say women are being threatened with visa cancellation along with sexual, financial, physical and emotional abuse

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Priya* hoped a short getaway to south-east Asia would repair her marriage.

It was planned after months of abuse and coercion at the hands of her husband – which began almost immediately after arriving in Australia – that became so bad she feared leaving their Melbourne home, she says.

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