Five per cent of all homicides in Australia each year involve a child killing a parent, with sons most often targeting fathers and daughters their mothers, a landmark report has found.

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The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) released Parricide in Australia on October 8, drawing on 35 years of data from 1989 to 2024.

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AIC deputy director Dr Rick Brown said the study highlighted a greater need to consider parricide - the murder of a parent by their child - in policy responses to famil

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