ONE of Queensland's largest domestic violence services has recommended coercive control be made a criminal offence in the wake of the shocking murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children at Camp Hill.

Queensland Women's Legal Service have called on the State Government to become a "national leader in responding to family violence" and have put forward a raft of suggested reforms to respond the "national domestic violence crisis". This includes an immediate review of domestic violence in the Queensland criminal justice system, including the implementation of a new offence of coercive control.

"It has been done very successfully overseas. What it would mean would be establishing a pattern of control. When police attend they would ask questions around the history of what's been happening, not just look at an incident in isolation," WLS chief executive Angela Lynch said yesterday.

Ms Lynch said WLS is also pushing for a statewide rollout of the Queensland Police's Domestic and Family Violence Taskforce, currently operating on the Gold Coast and Logan, where officers identify and track high-risk offenders and proactively monitor them.

Ms Lynch also called for reviews into strangulation, stalking and sexual violence offences, saying stalking laws had not caught up with technology.

Her comments come after a Townsville District Court case in last year deemed there was no definition in Queensland legislation for the acts of choking, suffocation or strangulation. For a person to be found guilty of choking, suffocation or strangulation, the person must stop another from breathing, not cause a "restriction in the ability to breathe", the case said.

"The problem with this is that it's the compression of blood flow that is dangerous," Ms Lynch said.

"It's the terror and control, the person who is doing the act saying: 'I can kill you if I want to'. It's not just the act of stopping breath, it's all those things so that's why we want this to be looked at."

She also called for increased funding for frontline services with the aim that calls for help don't go unanswered.

"Queensland should lead Australia in the wake of these incomprehensible murders," Ms Lynch said.