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released: 2 Mar 2005

Firearms have been a major cause of death over the years. Available deaths data covering the period 1979–2002 show that, in 1987, the year in which the highest number of firearm-related deaths was recorded, there were 711 such fatalities. Hospitalisations data covering a recent one-year period (2001–2002) record 443 cases of firearm-related hospitalisation over that period.

ISSN 1833-024X; Cat. no. AIHW 10232; 22pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit 2005. Firearm deaths and hospitalisations in Australia. Cat. no. AIHW 10232. Canberra: AIHW.