“Counting Dead Women Australia 2021. We count every known death due to violence against women in Australia: 32 by September 26.” [This count relies on publicly available information published by media outlets.]
In June 2021 the Australian Bureau of Statistics released Australian crime statistics for 2020.
A total of 396 homicides and related offences occurred between between 1 January and 31 December 2020.
- 131 of those or an est. 33 per cent of all victims were females.
- Most of these homicides & attempted homicides occurred in a residential setting, including the family home.
- A total of 99 of those 396 homicides and related offences occurred in New South Wales.
- 25 of those 99 or an est. 25.25 per cent of all NSW victims were females.
- Most of the women and girls were either related to the perpetrator or otherwise knew them.
The number of police recorded victims of family and domestic violence related sexual assault increased by 13 per cent in 2020, according to an Australian Bureau of Statistics media release.
Close to two in five victims of sexual assault recorded by police throughout 2020 were FDV-related and, almost three quarters of FDV-related sexual assault victim-survivors were aged under 19 years at the time the incident occurred (71 per cent) and the majority were female (86 per cent).
In NSW 81 per cent or 9,120 victims of sexual assault in 2020 were female and, around two in five (38 per cent) sexual assault incidents were FDV-related (4,288 victims).
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOSCAR), June 2021 Update:
Additionally, in NSW in 2020 an est. 30,506 females were the victims of assault and, a higher proportion of females (54% or 16,430 victims) were assaulted by a family member compared with males (24% or 8,263 victims).
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