Drawing on research projects currently being undertaken by members of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, their submission focuses on intimate partner homicides in Australia to address the Special Rapporteur’s request for information on:

• analysis of cases and actions undertaken in respect of a national femicide watch and/or observatory on violence against women; and
• information on related investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of intimate partner homicide (IPH) (section 6).

The submission also provides information on Australian administrative data on (IPH) for 2016-2018 (section 4); data on the number of women killed by their partners in Australia, collected from the Centre’s current research projects (section 5); and the Centre’s progress in the creation of a national femicide observatory (section 7).