What to do if you are in danger
If you are in danger, it is an emergency or a life-threatening situation, call 000
Go to a safe place. Safer places in your home are where there are two exits and no hard surfaces.
Take these items if possible:
- Money
- Keys to car, house, work
- Extra clothes
- Medications
- Birth certificates
- School and medical records (immunization records)
- Bank cards, credit cards, tax file number
- Driver’s license, car registration
- Healthcare card
- Medicare card and Centrelink information
- Passports, visa copies
- Lease, rental, mortgage and insurance papers
- Address book
- Pictures, jewellery, things that mean a lot to you
- Children’s things (toys, blankets, nappies etc.)
- Recent photograph of your ex-partner
- Any paperwork of existing Restraining Orders