Domestic violence Western Australia: Labor walks back ‘mandatory’ domestic violence monitoring pledge

Judges are not implementing Western Australia’s family and domestic violence laws mandating the monitoring of repeat offenders, as the state government walks back its declaration that courts would be compelled to impose them.

Michael Robert Reynold Radomiljac, who is charged with rape and strangulation, had his bail conditions amended last week to live in Perth without GPS tracking despite previous domestic violence convictions.

He had been released on bail in August with conditions including a $25,000 surety, but without GPS tracking, to live in the Wheatbelt town of Katanning – despite the WA government previously promising electronic monitoring of repeat family and domestic violence offenders would be mandatory.

During that hearing, the court was told Radomiljac’s mother and son once