Five women were murdered in Australia in seven days

The register maintained by the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint, which records every death due to violence against women in Australia, now sits at 44 for 2019.

We are now in the 39th week of 2019 so the toll is higher than the shocking statistic that on average a woman is killed each week by a current or former partner.

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