It's been five years since Brisbane woman Hannah Clarke and her three children were murdered, in a crime that shocked the country. The family's horrendous deaths lead to laws to better protect victim, and survivors will come into effect in Queensland within months.
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00:00I'm here at Camp Hill in Brisbane's east at Hannah's Place, a memorial to murdered Queensland
00:08woman Hannah Clark.
00:10Today marks five years to the day that Hannah, along with her three children, were murdered
00:15by her estranged partner just streets away from here in a crime that shocked the local
00:21community and the nation.
00:23Since then, Sue and Lloyd Clark, Hannah's parents, have been instrumental about bringing
00:29legislative change to Queensland.
00:31That includes making coercive control an offence in Queensland.
00:36Coercive control is an act or a pattern of controlling behaviour, threats, threats of
00:41violence, abuse or intimidation against a victim and is at the heart of domestic and
00:46family violence.
00:48Moments ago, Sue and Lloyd and a range of other stakeholders planted plants in Hannah
00:53and her children's honour to bring about butterflies, which they said were in the area on the day
00:59that she died.
01:00Coercive control becomes an offence in Queensland in May and the Clarks have encouraged other
01:06jurisdictions to follow Queensland's lead.