This report builds on the team’s prior work but is, in a number of respects, different to the six reports that the team has previously published. Most notably, in this report the team makes no new recommendations, electing instead to reflect critically on the implementation of the recommendations it has made to date, its review processes, and consider how it can effect system reform in the most meaningful way possible into the future.

This report sets out the ten domestic violence homicides reviewed by the team for the reporting period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2021. The names in the case review summaries have been changed to protect the identities of people involved and respect the privacy of surviving family and friends.

The datasets in this report draw on the expertise of the team and the diverse range of primary source materials that the team has access to. The combined expertise and diversity of primary source material offers a unique opportunity to undertake in-depth analysis of the domestic violence characteristics preceding an IPV homicide, setting the findings apart from many other studies exploring homicide.