AUSTRALIAN DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE DEATH REVIEW NETWORK DATA REPORT - Filicides in a

The Network The Network was established in 2011 following the The national filicide project implementation of DFV death review mechanisms in several Australian jurisdictions.3 The Network is The current project seeks to enhance the national a collaboration of all state and territory DFV death understanding of filicide and establish the rate, review mechanisms. [...] The depth and breadth of the death review data examined in this project is an exceptional strength of this research and provides the opportunity to examine the characteristics of each filicide case, including the histories that preceded each filicide with a particular focus on the DFV context. [...] Family violence, including communities the murder of women and children, is then in some ways attributed to the violence of colonisation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and the ongoing lack of appropriate services to have faced disproportionate rates of violence support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims from colonisation through to the present day. [...] This section outlines the historical violence have the training or resourcing to provide support throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the that addresses the unique context of family violence ongoing impacts resulting in violence, the efforts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to address the violence, and the structural violence (Douglas et al., 2020; Langton et al., 2020a). [...] a review of both Australian and international This pilot involved a member from the Network academic and grey literature to examine the current and the lead ANROWS researcher for the project understanding of filicide and inform the creation of individually extracting case data from all available the data set.