Eleven more women have died violently in 2024 compared to the same time last year
A floral tribute at the scene for Hannah McGuire at the site where her remains were found. (AAP: Con Chronis )
Childcare worker and mother Molly Ticehurst was found dead in a regional New South Wales home on Monday morning.
The Forbes local was 28 years old. She was also the 25th woman to die from gender-based violence in Australia this year, according to data interpreted from Counting Dead Women.
An hour down the road, in Bribbaree, a 65-year-old woman died in a house fire in January. Her son has been charged with her murder.
Four months earlier than Ms Ticehurst, the 65-year-old was the second woman to die violently by gender-based violence this year.
Seven hours down the Hume Highway, the Ballarat community has been mourning three local women who died in two months, all to gender-based violence — Rebecca Young, Samantha Murphy and Hannah McGuire.
Hannah McGuire was 23 when she died. (Supplied: GoFundMe)
Ms Young was the 10th, Ms Murphy the 13th and Ms McGuire the 18th woman to die.
As of this time last year, 14 women had died. By April 23, 2024, 25 women have died of gender-based violence, 11 more than last year.
And in 2022, 17 had women died by the same time in April, 14 in 2021 and 2020.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described it as a "crisis", noting that one woman a week dies at the hands of someone they know or someone they are in a relationship with. This year, that number is two women every nine days.
When asked if the crisis was a national emergency, the prime minister avoided labelling it one.
Last week, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus gave an address at a sexual violence symposium and said there needed to be a "fundamental shift in acknowledgement that" overwhelmingly, violence against women in Australia was perpetrated by men.
The attorney-general said that to create lasting change, women could not be expected to solve violence against them alone.
"It's time for men to step up," he said.
Last week hundreds attended a vigil for those who died in the Bondi Junction attacks that included five women who NSW top cop Karen Webb said were "obviously" targeted for their gender.
No official counter for women's deaths, yet
The number of women who die in gendered violence is collated and published by Destroy the Joint's Counting Dead Women and Femicide Watch's Red Heart Campaign for figures on the number of women killed across the nation.
While disproportionately men perpetrate gendered violence, experts and activists who work to bring down the number of dead women are often survivors themselves and, predominantly, women.
Last year, the government used the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women to announce a new online tracker that would provide quarterly updates on intimate partner homicides to enable police, governments, and policymakers to have access to "accurate, verified and closer to real-time data".
"For a number of years, the crucial work of counting these deaths has been done by advocates and researchers," the prime minister said in an opinion piece published in the West Australian at the time of the announcement.
He added to end violence against women "we have to be able to measure it". However, the online tracker will not be live until the middle of this year.
The federal government has been working on the National Plan to End Domestic Violence but has received criticism over its implementation, including from some of its parliamentary colleagues across the political spectrum, including independent senators and MPs.