The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes 264 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. During this 12-month period there were 279 victims of homicide and 271 identified offenders.

The National Deaths in Custody Program has monitored the extent and nature of deaths occurring in prison, police custody and youth detention in Australia since 1980. This report contains detailed information on these deaths in 2024–25 and compares the findings with longer term trends. It finds there were 113 deaths in custody.

This study examines the characteristics of parricide in Australia using 35 years of data. Parricide, or the homicide of a parent by their child, comprises 5% of homicides each year. Findings illustrate the distinctiveness of parricide and the greater need to consider this form of lethal violence in responses to family violence.

This report describes 262 homicide incidents recorded by state and territory police between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. The report covers homicide incidents, victims of homicide and homicide offenders. There were 277 victims of homicide an – increase of 30 victims from 2022–23 and the second largest number of homicide victims recorded in...

An examination of the number and nature of deaths in prison, police custody and youth detention. The report found 104 deaths in 2023–24 (6 fewer than the previous year) and 23% of these were First Nations people. There was one death in youth detention – the first in 14 years.