Fifty-eight women have "died violently" in Australia so far this year, according to feminist organisation Destroy the Joint’s ongoing research project Counting Dead Women.

In all of 2017 the organisation counted 53 women who had died violently.

Here is what we know about the 11 women who died in October.

The body of Sydney woman Nicole Cartwright was found by a council worker at Buffalo Creek Reserve in Sydney's northern suburb of Hunters Hill on October 3.