New statistics have confirmed that, despite a 30-year downward trend in women being killed by their partners,there was a sharp rise in 2022-23. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the rate of women killed by their partners in Australia grew by 28% from 2021–22 to 2022–23. Half of the female homicide victims in 2022–23 were killed by a former or current partner.
There were 34 women killed in intimate partner incidents in the financial year 2022–23, which is the equivalent of 0.32 per 100,000 people. The year before, the rate was 0.25 such homicides per 100,000
