This body is in the database because of a reform that already happened, and because of the part of it that did not.

What was fixed. Under the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme, every protection order made in any Australian jurisdiction on or after 25 November 2017 is automatically recognised and enforceable nationally. Orders made before that date can be registered and declared nationally recognised. A person who moves interstate does not have to re-apply, re-prove, or re-live anything to stay protected.

That is a genuine remove reform at national scale, in the domain where the consequences of the old arrangement were most severe, and it is worth recording alongside the aged care screening merge as the second clear instance in this database of the partial-national pattern being fixed rather than described.

What was not. The scheme recognises orders; it does not make the underlying laws consistent. Each state and territory retains its own family violence legislation, its own definitions, its own grounds and its own conditions. An order travels; the law behind it does not, and what conduct breaches an order can differ from the state it was made in.

A national review of domestic violence order frameworks, including the scope of the scheme, is due to report to the Standing Council of Attorneys-General and the Police Ministers Council by June 2026.