Australia has recorded a significant rise in the rate of intimate partner homicide, according to the latest police data, with Indigenous women nearly seven times more likely to die at the hands of a current or former partner.
New statistics have revealed a worrying increase in the number of women killed by a current or ex-partner, as the debate over the crisis in Australia takes centre stage.the latest reporting period – from July 2022 to June 2023 – there we
Rates of female partner homicide have increased by 28 per cent since the last reporting period, with the vast majority of people murdered by a male intimate or ex-intimate partner being women. The new data relates to murder or manslaughter charges, murder-suicides, road accidents including driving causing death, and all over deaths ruled as homicide by police. Picture: Gaye Gerard/NCA NewsWire.
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