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Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days , on average, by a current or former intimate partner.

While these deaths are increasingly reported on , suicide represents a largely hidden and potentially far greater part of the intimate partner violence death toll.

Each week in Australia, on average, an estimated 15 women die by suicide. Evidence from coronial reviews suggests intimate partner and family violence may be contributing factors in 28%–56% of suicides among women—or four to eight per week.

But these estimates come from isolated coronial case reviews in only three states ( Victoria , New South Wales , and Western Australia ).…