Word list

This list explains what the bold words in this document mean.

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Coercive control

Coercive control can include when someone controls:

  • who you talk to
  • where you go
  • your money.

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Consent

When you give consent, you tell someone you want to take part in something.

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Economic abuse

Economic abuse includes when someone:

  • takes your money
  • makes you pay for other people’s things
  • doesn’t let you choose what you spend your money on.

It also includes when someone stops you getting a job so you don’t have your own money.

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Gender

Your gender is what you feel and understand about who you are as a person.

It isn’t about whether your body looks male or female.

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Gender equality

We will have gender equality when Australians believe all genders are equal.

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Intersectionality

When people are treated differently because of more than one thing about them, we call it intersectionality.

For example, if they are both:

  • a woman
  • and
  • have a disability.

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LGBTIQA+

The letters LGBTIQA stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or questioning and asexual.

The ‘+’ is for people who are part of the LGBTIQA+ community but don’t talk about themselves using a word from this list.

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Lived experience

People with lived experience of violence:

  • have experienced violence before
  • know what life can be like for people who experience violence
  • can tell their story to help others.

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Pornography

Pornography is photos or videos of:

  • someone’s sexual body parts
  • people doing sexual things.

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Principles

Principles are important ideas we need to work on to reach our goal.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is when someone makes you feel uncomfortable when they:

  • make sexual comments about you that you don’t like
  • act in a sexual way towards you.

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Sexual violence

Sexual violence is when someone:

  • makes you do sexual things you don’t want to do
  • does something sexual to you that you don’t want them to do.

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Technology-facilitated abuse

People can also use technology as part of their violence.

They might use a device, like a phone or computer.

Or they might use social media, like Facebook or Snapchat.