DOMESTIC violence offenders will be put on a statewide register and women will have the power to check if a new man in their life is on the list.

NSW will be the first state in Australia to get a domestic violence register, after Premier Mike Baird and minister for women Pru Goward promised that, if re-elected, they would set up the register to protect women against violent partners.

It comes after 23 women were killed in NSW last year by violent partners, and there were more than 29,000 domestic assaults. In January, Sydney hairdresser Leila Alavi became the third woman to allegedly die at the hands of a partner in NSW in the first month of 2015.

Despite having an ADVO against her ex-husband Mokhtar Hosseiniamraei, he allegedly stabbed Ms Alavi to death in a car park.

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The register is modelled on “Clare’s law” in the UK — set up after Clare Wood, 36, was killed by her violent ex-boyfriend, even after she repeatedly reported him to police.

It gives women the “right to ask” authorities if they have concerns their partner has a violent history and had been used by more than 4000 women within a year of it starting in the UK. Of these women, more than 1300 ­received a disclosure about their partner’s violent history.

“Domestic and family violence remains one of the biggest challenges to the welfare of women and children in NSW,” Mr Baird said.

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“The disclosure scheme is a simple but powerful measure that provides people with the chance to find out if their partner has a violent past, and empowers decision-making about the future of relationships.”

The election commitment was recommended to the state government after Ms Goward set up a taskforce in February last year to investigate tougher sentences for domestic violence perpetrators and better outcomes for victims.

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It is understood the list will first be made up only of men convicted of a charge of domestic assault, but the government will consider extending this to men who are the subject of an ADVO after consultation with the Justice Department.

Those who use power and control in their intimate relationships rarely change those behaviours

Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia CEO Karen Willis

Safeguards will be put in place so that people asking if someone is on the register have to prove they are in a domestic relationship.

Ms Goward said the list would be a way of preventing violence and would be developed by Women NSW and the Department of Justice.

The new scheme is supported by Domestic Violence NSW and Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia.

Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia CEO Karen Willis said men who are abusive generally have a history.

“It is well established that those who use power and control in their intimate relationships rarely change those behaviours,” she said.

“For those entering a new relationships this will allow them to find out if the charm is hiding a history of violence.”