Coronial — Australian coroners' findings dataset
https://coronial.com.au

Generated: 2026-10-18 23:20 UTC
Rows:      9384
File:      coronial-findings.csv.gz  (UTF-8 CSV, gzip; multi-valued fields joined with " | ")

This is the complete public dataset behind coronial.com.au: one row per
published coronial finding across all Australian jurisdictions, with the
structured fields and AI-generated summary shown on the site. Findings
themselves are public documents of the respective coroners' courts; the
source_url column links to each court's own record and pdf_url to the
document.

The dump is refreshed weekly. Please download it rather than crawling the
site's search pages. coronial.com.au is a self-funded public tool run by
one clinician in their spare time: every scraped page is a server request
that I pay for out of my own pocket, and sustained scraping has already
pushed the hosting bill up and taken the site down for the people it
exists for. It is also, frankly, not a nice thing to do to a free
resource. Take the file instead — it is the whole dataset, and it costs
me nothing.

Bulk PDF download
  pdf-urls.txt (same folder) is a plain list of every mirrored PDF URL,
  one per line, for feeding to a download manager or:
      curl -O https://pub-5798f27b849f42c3add9cc1e88d7a2a6.r2.dev/dataset/pdf-urls.txt
      xargs -P 2 -n 1 curl -sS -O -L --retry 3 < pdf-urls.txt
  Please keep it to a couple of parallel downloads.

Use
  Free for research, education and journalism with attribution to
  coronial.com.au. AI-generated summaries and tags may contain errors;
  refer to the original finding for anything that matters. For commercial
  use, full-text access, or a custom extract, get in touch: contact [at] coronial.com.au

Columns
    id
  state
  deceased_name
  age
  sex
  date_of_death
  date_of_finding
  setting
  age_group
  specialty_involved
  cause_of_death
  contributing_factors
  type_of_error
  clinical_conditions
  preventability
  drugs_involved
  procedure_involved
  escalation_failure
  rural_remote
  supervision_issue
  ahpra_referral
  hospital_name
  recommendations
  summary
  pdf_url
  source_url
  finding_url
  title
  coroner
  keywords
  indigenous_status
  death_in_custody_or_care
  in_prison_custody
  in_aged_care
  disability_indicated
  mental_health_act_involved
  family_violence_related
  podcast_url
  archive_url  — our own mirror of the finding's PDF (Cloudflare R2), which
                 stays available if the court moves or removes its copy.
                 pdf_url is the court's original; source_url is the court's
                 index or record page for the finding.