‘We’ve got to listen to dead women’: critical part of Queensland’s DV response stops reviewing all recent deaths

Exclusive: It’s been found that Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board has stopped routinely reviewing recent cases of domestic violence and murder, favouring historic data instead. Photograph: Sarah Marshall/EPA

The Queensland advisory board tasked with reviewing domestic and family violence deaths has quietly stopped routinely analysing new cases, and has not looked into most of the latest deaths for more than two years.

Guardian Australia’s Broken trust investigation has uncovered evidence and allegations that raise concern about the way the coronial system investigates women’s deaths and the accuracy of Queensland’s DFV statistics.