The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a Statistical Bulletin from the National Homicide Monitoring Program: Homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The report shows that:
Between 1989–90 and 2022–23, there were 473 incidents of homicide in Australia where at least one victim was an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander woman.
Indigenous women experience a homicide victimisation rate between two and seven times greater than the national homicide rate.
Seventy-two percent (n=328) of victims were killed by their current or former intimate partner.
Most offenders had a history of domestic and family violence. Of the 69 offenders between 2016–17 and 2022–23 (where data were available), two-thirds (67%, n=46) had a history of domestic and family violence.
