More than 60 women have been violently killed this year, many by intimate partners, and experts warn that the holidays are a particularly dangerous time.
Counting Dead Women Australia – which is run by Destroy the Joint researchers – tracks “every known death due to violence against women” and says the number this week reached 62.
That figure includes a death on Wednesday, after a man allegedly stabbed two women in Plympton, South Australia. One woman, Julie Seed, died at the scene, and the other is in a stable condition in the Royal Adelaide hospital.