A statistical dashboard launched today will help drive our shared ambition to end violence against women and children in Australia in one generation by providing more timely reporting on female victims of intimate partner homicide.
We know that to end violence we must be able to measure it. Accurate, verified, closer to real-time data is crucial to achieving this aim.
As announced in November last year, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is today releasing a new statistical dashboard on intimate partner homicide. Data will be updated quarterly in collaboration with all state and territory jurisdictions. The first release includes data from January to March 2024 and provides accurate and verified data on female victims of intimate partner homicides.
The dashboard responds to the 2022-2032 National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children’s goal of reducing female intimate partner homicide by 25% each year and the commitment to collecting data and evidence to develop safe and appropriate responses.
We know that 89 per cent of victims of intimate partner homicides in 2022-23 were women.
Every single one of these lives lost is a tragedy. We all have a role to play in ending violence against women and we know that all governments have more work to do.
The dashboard will allow for more timely reporting and enable police, governments, policy makers, and all those who are working to end violence against women and children, to better understand the scale of the issue and develop priority responses.
This follows the AIC’s National Homicide Monitoring Program report, Homicide in Australia 2022-23, released in April this year which found 34 women were killed by an intimate partner in 2022–23.
The dashboard records that in the period January to March 2024 there were five female victims of intimate partner homicide compared with eight in the same period last year.
This data only contains verified incidents where an offender has been charged, or would have been charged if they were not deceased, and may be revised as more information is provided.
The dashboard data refers to incidents where a woman has been killed by an intimate partner, and is not a list of all women killed during that time.
The Albanese Labor Government’s commitment is backed by our record $3.4 billion Commonwealth investment to support the National Plan through measures that address the intersecting domains of prevention, early intervention, responses and supporting recovery and healing.
The dashboard will be managed by the AIC and can be found on their website.
If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic, family or sexual violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, chat online via www.1800RESPECT.org.au, or text 0458 737 732.
If you are concerned about your behaviour or use of violence, you can contact the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491 or visit http://www.ntv.org.au
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The Australian Institute of Criminology
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice. The AIC seeks to promote justice and reduce crime by undertaking and communicating evidence-based research to inform policy and practice.