The federal government has introduced a new statistical dashboard for intimate partner homicides involving female victims. 

The dashboard, developed by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), will be updated quarterly with data from state and territory jurisdictions. 

The initial release covers the period from January to March 2024. It reveals five cases of female victims of intimate partner homicide during this timeframe, a decrease from eight cases in the same period the previous year.

The initiative is part of the Government’s broader goal to end violence against women and children within a generation.

In 2022-23, 89 per cent of intimate partner homicide victims were women.

Senator Katy Gallagher, Minister for Women, says Australia needs accurate, verified, and near real-time data in efforts to combat violence. 

“We know that to end violence we must be able to measure it. Accurate, verified, closer to real-time data is crucial to achieving this aim,” she said.

The data from the dashboard only includes verified incidents where an offender has been charged or would have been charged if not deceased. 

This distinction sets the government's dashboard apart from other counters by grassroots organisations such as Destroy the Joint's Counting Dead Women and the Red Heart Campaign’s Femicide Counter, which often report different figures due to varying data collection methods and criteria.

The AIC will manage the dashboard, available on their website.

For those in need of support, 1800RESPECT provides assistance via phone, online chat, or text, while the Men’s Referral Service offers help to those concerned about their behaviour. The 13YARN service provides crisis support for those feeling distressed.