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New data on homicide in Australia available

Link to: Homicide in Australia 2023–24

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new report from the National Homicide Monitoring Program: Homicide in Australia 2023–24. Data from this report show that:

• There were 262 homicide incidents recorded in Australia between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024, an increase of 30 incidents from the 232 incidents recorded in 2022–23.
• The female intimate partner homicide victimisation rate in 2023‒24 was 0.43 per 100,000, an increase from the rate of 0.32 per 100,000 recorded in 2022–23 and the second highest rate of female intimate partner homicide in the last 10 years.
• The killing of a parent was the second most frequent type of domestic homicide after intimate partner, with 2023–24 recording the equal largest number of parricides in Australia since 1989–90.