Kristy spent her life defying doctor's odds. Then she was allegedly attacked by her partner.

Kristy Louise Hunter was a fighter.

From defying the odds of her congenital heart condition to being diagnosed with cancer, she was desperate to live — right up until she lost her life, the day after an alleged assault. She was 47 years old.

On December 22, Kristy was at her home in Currimundi, Queensland when her partner, Philip Andrew Hunter, 58, allegedly assaulted her with an axe handle.

Police said they were called to the Gannawarra Street home about 4.40pm to reports of a disturbance and found Kristy with non-life-threatening injuries.

She was taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital, where she died the next day. A post-mortem is yet to be completed.

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Kristy was not expected to survive her childhood, her father told Sherele Moody's Australian Femicide Watch.

She was diagnosed with a congenital heart condition and underwent lifesaving operations. Doctors told her parents she would not make it past 12 years old.

But Kristy surprised them all and continued to prove doctors wrong throughout her life.

Doctors told her she would never be able to have children, but she welcomed a girl into the world. Her daughter was the centre of her universe. Everything she did, she did for her.

Her father told Moody that Kristy had recently been diagnosed with cancer and was desperate to live for her daughter.

Hunter was taken into custody at the scene and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm as a domestic violence offence, aggravated contravention of a domestic violence order and obstructing police.

Police later charged him with the more serious offence of acts intending to cause grievous bodily harm as a domestic violence offence.

Kristy Louise Hunter defied doctors' odds more than once. Image: Sherele Moody's Australian Femicide Watch.

Hunter, originally from Subiaco in Western Australia, had his occupation listed as carer in court documents and had the same address as Kristy.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Melinda Pyke told Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist on Monday the 47-year-old alleged victim was Hunter's "partner" and also said his initial charge could change.

"At some point the prosecution will be taking a certain course in relation to the original assault occasioning bodily harm charge," she said.

Stjernqvist remanded Hunter in custody for a committal mention on February 24 at Maroochydore Magistrates Court.

-with AAP

Feature image: Sherele Moody's Australian Femicide Watch.