This is the sixth report published by the NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team since its establishment in 2010. The
culmination of two years of work, this report outlines findings from the 53 domestic violence context deaths examined by the team between 2017 and 2019. 

Effective domestic violence policies must also be underpinned by strong quantitative data and this report showcases the team’s new data collection methodology which allows for more detailed and up-to-date reporting. Accordingly, this report presents incidence, case characteristic and demographic information in relation to all domestic violence context deaths occurring in NSW between 1 July 2000 and 30 June 2019.

The team has long recognised the importance of accurate and specialised domestic violence death data and hopes that this move towards real-time data reporting will inform the work of policy-makers, service providers and advocates alike in their varied efforts at ending domestic violence.

Key data findings:

• 80% of intimate partner homicide victims were women.
• 97% of women killed by an intimate partner had been the primary domestic violence victim in the relationship.
• 36% of women in this dataset were killed by a former intimate partner, and two-thirds of these women had ended the intimate relationship with the domestic violence abuser within three months of being killed.
• Women killed by an intimate partner were aged between 15 and 80 years of age.
• 14% of women killed by an intimate partner identified as Aboriginal.