The estimated cost of identity crime in Australia in 2018–19 (including direct and indirect costs) was $3.1b—17 percent more than in 2015–16.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released three new statistical reports examining identity crime and misuse in Australia:

Joint release by the Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS), Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), and the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

With about seventy women killed by their partners or ex-partners each year, killing an intimate partner is the most common form of homicide in Australia.

Alarmingly, 2020 may well see that number rise, as self-isolation measures designed to contain COVID-19 are likely to exacerbate abuse and violence against women and their children.