Australia Political Violence and Demonstration Events by Year and Month
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Description
This dataset tracks political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Australia through weekly updated aggregates. Produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the records are organized by country-year and country-month intervals to facilitate longitudinal conflict analysis.
Use Cases
Analyzing the frequency of civilian-targeting events across different years
Comparing monthly demonstration event totals to identify seasonal protest patterns
Evaluating long-term trends in political violence counts within the Australian context
Strengths
Weekly update frequency ensures data reflects recent developments
Standardized event categories including political violence and civilian-targeting
Data is sourced from ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict location and event data
Limitations
Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific event locations or individual incident details
Access to granular event-level data requires external registration and API usage
Provenance
Source
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
Collection Method
Aggregated from ACLED's primary event database
Freshness
Updated weekly as of March 2026.
Geography
Australia
Users must register on the ACLED website to access full event-level data or use their API; the HDX version only contains aggregated files in XLSX format.