New data shows Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are far more likely to be the victims of assault and murder than any other section of the population.
Indigenous people make up nearly one-third of the Territory’s population, and figures from the Bureau of Statistics show that in 2008 Indigenous people were victims in 59 per cent of all assaults, in half of all sexual assualts, and in nearly two-thirds of all murders.
But the data also shows Indigenous people made up just 7 per cent of robbery victims.