49 women have been killed in Australia so far in 2023 as a result of violence. Are we actually making any progress?
- Written by Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
As of November 17, 49 women have been killed in Australia this year as a result of violence; 28 were allegedly killed at the hands of a male intimate or ex-intimate partner. That’s according to the activist project Counting Dead Women Australia, which collects these figures based on media-reported crimes.
The Commonwealth government’s...
