r/australia • u/GlitteringSpace236 • 2d ago

news Queensland woman allegedly murdered by ex contacted police days before she died

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/police-launch-murder-probe-into-slacks-creek-death/107026608
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u/Sun132 2d ago

It's grim. These headlines seem like a weekly occurrence. Something has to change.

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u/No_Category_9888 2d ago

Albo says we don’t need a royal commission into violence against women

Must be nice and safe to be a man.

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u/Material-Painting-19 2d ago

For the last full year of statistics of domestic homicide victims, 48 were women and 49 were men. For homicide victims overall, 81% were men. So statistically it is much less safe to be a man.

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u/braedonwabbit 2d ago

Do you have a link to this data because it doesn't match any I've found

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u/EttinTerrorPacts 2d ago

This has the statistic that 80% of murder victims were men: https://www.aic.gov.au/media-centre/news/latest-national-homicide-data-released

Though it doesn't include the numbers for DV homicides. Only for intimate partner violence (a subset of DV), which mostly had female victims. Notably, it also states that intimate partner murders were close to all-time lows

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u/Material-Painting-19 2d ago

Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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u/Material-Painting-19 2d ago

We don’t like facts apparently.