Counting Dead Women Australia
Counting Dead Women Australia keeps a continually updated register of women killed by violence in Australia every year. The register begins in 2012. We add the latest information to our annual registers as soon as it is received and verified.
About the Project
Destroy The Joint’s ongoing project, Counting Dead Women Australia, was created in 2014 with inspiration and encouragement from Karen Ingala Smith, co-founder of the original British project. Counting Dead Women is the most immediate, credible and substantiated national record of femicide in Australia.
We are determined to continue our campaign, which calls on all levels of government to prioritise a national, unified system for investigation, analysis and response to violence against women and to oppose complacency in the public domain. We demand a safer world for women and their children.
Register of women
killed by violence
Statistics show one woman dies as a result of domestic or family violence every week in Australia. Statistics are not improving yet funding to services that support women have been cut, indicating a potential lack of public awareness of the scale of the problem.
About Destroy The Joint
Destroy The Joint stands for gender equality and civil discourse in Australia. The name came from the on-air comments of 2GB radio broadcaster Alan Jones, who stated on Friday 31 August 2012 in an on-air discussion on women in positions of power, that “women are destroying the joint”.
This misogynistic comment was transformed into a witty Twitter hashtag that trended for 4 days. The Destroy The Joint Facebook page was set up on 2 September 2012 independent of what was occurring in the twitterverse, to provide a community for everyone who is sick of sexism and misogyny in Australia.
We reject the suggestion that women are out to destroy anything but the patriarchy, and amplify a call to action for Australians who reject sexism and seek a civil and decent society. We're not out to destroy the joint — that was someone else’s description. We’re out to rebuild it.