australia is dead, page-14

Well i live in an area where i don't need to lock my house

http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.aspx
It doesn't go back that far but i see no incredible upward trend in the past 15 years

Gun homicides have dropped infact since the early nineties

Also
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/4524A092E30E4486CA2569DE00256331

is an interesting read