A report card assessing progress against the 35 recommendations made by Northern Territory (NT) Coroner Elisabeth Armitage in 2025 following the landmark inquest into the domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) related deaths of four Aboriginal women.

The purpose of the report is to strengthen accountability, prioritise progress and support a coordinated Territory-wide response to a crisis that leaders across the NT agree is urgent and disproportionately affecting Aboriginal women and children.

The NT has the highest rate of DFSV in the world, while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women face intimate partner homicide at seven times the rate of all Australian women nationally. NT Police forecast a 73% increase in DFSV reports over the next decade.

A key finding of the report card is that many recommendations focused on Aboriginal community-led solutions, cultural authority and long-term system reform are either absent or not measurable within the strategy’s program logic and data framework. 

The report card compares the Coroner’s 35 recommendations with the NT Government’s subsequent response and the DFSV strategy 2025–2028. It finds:

• 12 recommendations are not included in the strategy
• 16 are only partially aligned
• none of the 35 are fully measurable within the strategy’s monitoring framework
• 17% of the overall assessment is rated green.