It isn’t easy to find data on Indigenous women’s violence. The numerous reports on Indigenous violence usually omit any mention of Indigenous women as perpetrators of domestic violence.
The following information was based on statistics produced by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOSCAR).
Here’s the most relevant data.
Summarizing some of this data, here is a graph giving the latest 2019 figures showing offender rates for domestic violence assaults, comparing male and female Indigenous and general populations per 100,000.
The red bars represent the Aboriginal population and grey ones, the group of all men or women.
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