Report reveals rise of Australian women killed by intimate partner
STORY: Report reveals rise of Australian women killed by intimate partner
SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage
DATELINE: May 2, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:23
LOCATION: Canberra
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
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STORYLINE:
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 20
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