CANBERRA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The rate of Australian women who were killed by a current or former partner increased by almost 30 percent in 2022-23, official data has revealed.
The government-funded Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) on Tuesday released the latest data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program.
It revealed that there were 247 homicide victims in Australia in the 12-month period to the end of June 2023, 75 of whom were women.
Of the 75 women, 34 or 45.3 percent were killed by a current or former male intimate partner, up from 26 in the previous 12 months. Overall 60 women were killed by men in 2022-23.
The rate of intimate partner homicide involving a female victim increased by 28 percent from 0.25 homicides per 100,000 people in 2021-22 to 0.32 in 2022-23, the report said.
The report was published days after thousands of Australians joined protests across the country demanding an end to gendered violence.
Twenty-seven women have died violently in Australia so far in 2024 according to advocacy group Destroy the Joint, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to declare violence against women a national crisis. ■