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• In 2018–19, 16% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 and over reported they were a victim of either physical or threatened physical harm in the preceding 12 months.
• The rate of hospitalisation of Indigenous Australians due to assault was highest in Remote and Very remote areas (2,353 and 2,458 per 100,000 population, respectively) and lowest in Inner regional areas (297 per 100,000 population) between July 2017 and June 2019.
• Indigenous females were 27 times as likely to be hospitalised for assault as non-Indigenous females between July 2017 and June 2019. The difference between the two populations was largest in Remote areas where Indigenous females were 51 times as likely to be hospitalised due to assault as non-Indigenous females living in the same region.
• Between July 2017 and June 2019, the rates of non-fatal family violence-related hospitalisation for Indigenous Australians were 30 times that for non-Indigenous Australians.
• For hospitalisations of Indigenous females due to assault where information about the perpetrator was recorded, the perpetrator was a domestic partner in 62.3% (8,525) of cases and another family member or parent in 23.5% (3,225) of cases.
• In 2018–19, of reported experiences of physical harm among Indigenous Australians, offenders were believed to be under the influence of alcohol or other substances in 74% of these incidents. This was more likely to be the case in remote areas (77%) than non-remote areas (74%).
• Between 2009–10 and 2018–19, the rate of hospitalisation from assault increased from 814 to 914 hospitalisations per 100,000 population for Indigenous females. For Indigenous males over the same period, there was a reduction in the hospitalisation rate — 802 to 760 per 100,000 population.
• Some of factors believed to contribute to high rates of violence within Indigenous communities include breakdown of community kinship systems; entrenched poverty; racism; alcohol and drug abuse
• Research has shown that experiencing family violence can affect a person’s education, employment, economic security, and housing outcomes.