In Victoria, you can obtain a family violence intervention order against a person, no matter what their gender is, if they are a family member and the person:

1. has; and

2. are they either are likely to or they will;

commit behaviour that meets the definition of family violence:

(1) For the purposes of this Act,family violenceis—

(a) behaviour by a person towards a family member of that person if that behaviour—

(i) is physically or sexually abusive; or

(ii) is emotionally or psychologically abusive; or

(iii) is economically abusive; or

(iv) is threatening; or

(v) is coercive; or

(vi) in any other way controls or dominates the family member and causes that family member to feel fear for the safety or wellbeing of that family member or another person; or

(b) behaviour by a person that causes a child to hear or witness, or otherwise be exposed to the effects of, behaviour referred to in paragraph (a).