<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Landmark domestic violence legislation has been unveiled in New South Wales, ensuring offenders who murder their partners face the toughest laws in the nation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The reform comes on the back of tireless </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/mackenzie-anderson-murder-tyrone-thompson-sentence-to-be-appealed-by-prosecutors/1e61f9c5-87da-403b-9406-ec914785c3ab" rel="" target="" title="campaigning"><span>campaigning</span></a><span> from Tabitha Acret after her daughter, Mackenzie Anderson, was </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/newcastle-nsw-mackenzie-anderson-stabbing/585698af-e447-4ff6-a676-40ee950b6fd4" rel="" target="" title="murdered"><span>murdered</span></a><span> by her ex-boyfriend.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He received a non-parole period of just 15 and a half years.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/israel-hamas-ceasefire-two-more-bodies-returned-to-israel-after-one-not-a-hostage/b3778ac5-eea7-4345-8642-27fd863baaf2" target="_blank"><strong><span>Israel, Hamas swap bodies after 'hostage' error threatens peace</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I hope that she'd be proud, because as a mum, there's a sense of such disappointment that I didn't keep her safe. And that's your job as a mum, and I didn't do it," Acret said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She began relentlessly lobbying the state government after fearing that the sentence that her daughter's killer received would set a precedent for even lower sentences.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That's when I thought, this is the norm? This is horrific," she said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/landmark-domestic-violence-laws-announced/caefcf8a-f8f0-4982-971d-2e906644f870" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Today, her campaigning paid off as NSW introduced the strictest domestic violence laws in the country.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/sydney-weather-hottest-october-on-record-could-happen/54f06329-d148-4eae-99a5-a5c30a1b1d1d" target="_blank"><strong><span>Aussie city set to shatter blistering 37-year heat record</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The state will be the first to legislate a standard non-parole period of 25 years for "intimate partner homicide" – or domestic violence murder – up from the previous 20.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Although the periods are not mandatory, the law will give judges more discretion to set higher minimum non-parole terms.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/household-stress-over-1-million-households-now-experiencing-cost-of-living-crisis/58a49c4d-6c2a-4f80-a049-5a4b901d4d73" target="_blank"><strong><span>More than a million households at critical stress point</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It won't return a murdered loved one to their family, but justice is important," Premier Chris Minns said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the past five years alone, 42 women have been murdered by their partner in NSW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In 2023, the average non-parole period for those killers was just 13 and a half years.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tyrone Thompson breached an Apprehended Violence Order at least eight times before killing Anderson. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Acret says it should have attracted a mandatory minimum sentence the first time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This sends a strong message that AVOs are worth the paper they're written on, because the moment they're not," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>at</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" title="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div>