Formal Submission to the Government and Academia.edu

Various formal publications submitted by Stand Again, available for public download.

Formal Submissions

Stand Again frequently submits to Government and Academia.edu

Copies of submissions can be accessed from below.

Second Action Plan consultation June 2026

Stand Again conducted a gap analysis of 336 DFV service providers across 19 service lines and all Australian states and territories. The analysis maps where provision is strong, where gaps remain, and what addressing those gaps could deliver - for female and male victim-survivors, and for the broader system. What we found:

  • 237 service providers dedicated to female victims. 5 serve male victims. 22 serve pets.
  • There are more crisis accommodation services for pets than for men.
  • Zero dedicated legal support, financial support, or suicide prevention services exist for male victim-survivors.
  • The estimated cost of these gaps: $7 billion per year.

NSW Statutory Review of the Coercive Control Reform Aug 26

The submission examines whether the reform's own method for ruling out misidentification can actually tell a genuine success from a detection failure that produces the same numbers, and tests NSW's charge data against the independent research on who experiences coercive control.

What we found:

  • NSW's coercive control charge data runs 19 to 1, women to men. The best available prevalence research puts the real gap between 4 to 1 and 5 to 1. One study found no gender difference at all.
  • BOCSAR uses the 95%-male charge data to prove the charge data is accurate. There is no independent measure of true prevalence to test that claim against.

Vacuum, Value, Venom: A Framework for Understanding and Addressing the Manosphere

This paper presents a three-stage model, vacuum, value, venom, for telling when content addressed to men is a pathway into adversarial ideology rather than genuine support. 

  • The vacuum stage names a genuine deficit in institutional affirmation of male worth. 
  • The value stage offers legitimate psychological goods: self-respect, discipline, belonging. 
  • The venom stage redirects the trust these goods earn toward contempt for women and institutions. 

The TTI Framework for Understanding and Analysing Coercive Control

This paper presents the TTI chain, Tactic, Trigger, Impact, a framework for analysing coercive control, and sets out how tactics are deployed in practice: 

  • A tactic is the abuser's observable behaviour. 
  • A trigger is the internal vulnerability the tactic exploits. 
  • An impact is the outcome the tactic produces. 

Separating these three links gives distinct points for clinical and legal intervention.

How Abuse Disrupts Healthy Processing Of Emotions

This paper introduces two mechanisms that disrupt healthy processing of emotion: 

  1. Protective interrupts, the adaptations a survivor generates to reduce harm in the moment. 
  2. Abuser-driven hijacks, the tactics a perpetrator uses to condition the survivor's emotional responses across the relationship. 

To best understand these two mechanisms, a healthy emotional processing cycle is defined. 

The Safe Operator, Trauma Reactor and Integrator Model (SOTRI)

This paper presents a model of how trauma splitting presents under long-term coercive control: 

  1. The Safe Operator keeps the survivor safe inside the relationship. 
  2. The Trauma Reactor takes over when threat is present. 
  3. The Integrator is the mode of meta-awareness. 

The paper sets out awakening as a process led by the Integrator and supported by the people and resources around the survivor.

Four Formation Models for How Male Survivors Become Entrapped in Coercive Control

This paper sets out four formation models describing how abusive relationships take shape in their early stages: 

  1. the Entrapment Fantasy begins with rapid idealisation and mirroring 
  2. the Rescuer to Ruler begins with her disclosed pain, drawing on his instinct to protect and fix 
  3. the Confession Trap begins with early, apparently honest disclosure of her own flaws, and 
  4. the Chaos Trap begins with constant crisis that casts him as the stabiliser 

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