New data shows almost half the women who were victims of a homicide in the last financial year were killed by a former or current intimate partner.

WARNING: This story contains discussion of domestic and family violence.

The latest report by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) shows there were 247 homicide victims in the 2022-23 financial year, up from 218 in 2021-22.

Of those, 75 were women, and 34 — or 49 per cent — of them were killed by a current or former intimate partner.

All of those current or former partners were male.

According to the report, the rate of intimate partner homicide (IPH) involving a female victim increased by 28 per cent between 2021-22 and 2022-23.

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