'Heartbreaking end to a life': alleged domestic violence deaths in Australia in 2020
This is a list of women who have died in Australia this year in a domestic setting or allegedly at the hands of someone they knew. The deaths of some of the victims identified below are still under investigation and many of the cases are the subject of active criminal proceedings which means we cannot definitively state that they were victims of domestic violence.According to the Counting Dead Women project by the anti-sexism group Destroy the Joint, which counts all female victims of violence, domestic or otherwise, at least 48 women have died in 2020 ‘The worst year': domestic violence soars in Australia during Covid-19‘Time for action': three international students allegedly murdered amid coronavirus