By This article discusses intimate partner homicide in Australia. While it would be primarily of interest to an Australian audience it is hoped that the information is useful to others for reference and to encourage similar articles to be written about other countries.
Increasingly a distinction is made between intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence (DV). IPV is violence that occurs between people who are married, involved in a defacto relationship or consider themselves involved romantically. Domestic violence is broader and is generally taken to mean violence between family members that live together. Jurisdictions don’t agree on the definitions and DV can sometimes include violence between family members that do not live together or people who are unrelated who do live together.
DV and IPV are very topical in Australia at the moment. The Australian federal government is running TV advertisements on domestic violence in which they tell us:
The truth is rather different.
Increasingly a distinction is made between intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence (DV). IPV is violence that occurs between people who are married, involved in a defacto relationship or consider themselves involved romantically. Domestic violence is broader and is generally taken to mean violence between family members that live together. Jurisdictions don’t agree on the definitions and DV can sometimes include violence between family members that do not live together or people who are unrelated who do live together.DV and IPV are very topical in Australia at the moment. The Australian federal government is running TV advertisements on domestic violence in which they tell us:
“Violence against Women. Let’s stop it at the start”.
The message from the Australian federal government is clear. They keep telling us that DV is something that men do to women and that what we need to do is modify the behaviour of young impressionable boys to fix the problem.The truth is rather different.



