The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (‘the Network’) was established in 2011 and represents a unique collaboration between domestic and family violence death review mechanisms across Australia. Network members have specialist expertise in domestic and family violence related issues and access to extensive information pertaining to domestic and family violence deaths. This is critical to providing a more informed, holistic understanding of the circumstances and context of a domestic and family violence related death.

In recent years, the Network has undertaken extensive work to develop a National Minimum Dataset of domestic and family violence related deaths and this report presents key findings from this specialised dataset.

This report demonstrates the breadth of information and data that is held by the Network, and its unique ability to collect and report on data in relation to domestic and family violence related deaths.