Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and households are safe
Target 13: By 2031, the rate of all forms of family violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children is reduced at least by 50%, as progress towards zero.
Indicators:
Drivers
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women self-reporting physical violence experience, by relationship to perpetrator
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child protection substantiations related to family violence
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children entering out-of-home care and receiving protection orders, where family violence is indicated
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women reporting family violence is common in their communities
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community awareness of what constitutes family violence (physical and non-physical violence: sexual, emotional, psychological and economic abuse and violence)
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people identifying certain behaviours as forms of family violence (physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and financial control)
- Rate of community attitudinal support (acceptance) of violence against women and children (justifying, excusing, minimising, hiding or shifting blame for family violence)
- Rates of hospitalisation for family violence assaults for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children; by relationship to perpetrator
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women/children homicide victim rates, by victim-offender relationship
Contextual information
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women/children victims of family and domestic violence recorded by police(data available for NSW, SA & NT)
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women/children victims of sexual assault, by victim-offender relationship (data available for NSW, QLD, SA & NT)
- Rates of hospitalisation for family violence assaults for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children; by relationship to perpetrator
- Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women/children homicide victim rates, by victim-offender relationship
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women reporting to have sought help from support services (police, legal, counselling, housing, etc.), by service type
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women reporting barriers in seeking help from support services, by barrier type
- Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women seeking assistance from Specialist Homelessness Services for reasons of family violence (admin data based) (AIHW Specialist Homelessness Services database)
- Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons accompanied with children seeking assistance from Specialist Homelessness Services for reasons of family violence (AIHW Specialist Homelessness Services database)
Disaggregation:
- Geographic area (jurisdiction, remoteness, other geographic categories available)
- Gender
- Age
- Disability
- Indigenous status (where available)
Data Development
Explore options to measure and report:
- rate of prevalence of non-physical forms of family violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women - including coercive control, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse and technological abuse, by disability status
- rate of prevalence of all forms of family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, by disability status
- perpetrators of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children by Indigenous status
- consistency in identification, capturing and counting procedures between different data sets across jurisdictions
- improved capture of cause of injury in national emergency department data
- nationally consistent data from administrative sources on access to support services (e.g. rates of access to family support and intensive family support services including mainstream family violence services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander specific services, such as Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLS) and Family Advocacy and Support Services (FASS))
- consistent data on rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families’ engagement with the family law system
- estimates of over-representation rate for violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and when parity can be achieved
- long term pathways, impacts and outcomes for perpetrators, survivors and their children