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 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.
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