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CANBERRA Deryk Engelland Jersey , Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Australia's murder rate has hit its lowest level ever, although women remained grossly overrepresented as victims of intimate partner homicides, new data released on Thursday showed.


The homicide rate reached a an all-time low of 1.1 victims per 100,000 people in the two years to June 2012, according to the latest National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).