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VictoriaFigure 3.11.5 Victims recorded by Victoria Police for domestic violencerelated assaulta, b, c, dRate per 100 000 population6005004003002001000IndigenousAll persons2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06a Any police members receiving a report of an incident must make sufficient initial inquiries to satisfythemselves that a crime has been committed. b Indigenous status is derived from the racial appearance of thevictim which is a subjective assessment by the police officer. c Domestic violence related assault is defined asa family violence report and an assault occurring in the same incident. d Calculations of rates for theIndigenous population are based on ABS Experimental Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderAustralians (low series, 2001 base). There are no comparable population data for the non-Indigenouspopulation. Calculations of rates for the non-Indigenous population are based on data derived by subtractingIndigenous population projections from total population estimates and should be used with care.Source: Victoria Police (unpublished); table 3A.11.15–18.• In Victoria, from 2002-03 to 2005-06, the rate of Indigenous victims of domesticviolence increased from 533.1 per 100 000 people to 574.1 per 100 000 people.Over the same period, the rate for all persons increased from 84.6 per 100 000people to 141.0 per 100 000 people (tables 3A.11.15 to 3A.11.18).• In 2005-06, Indigenous people were more than four times as likely to be a victimof domestic violence related assault than all persons (table 3A.11.15).• For Indigenous females in Victoria in 2005-06, the rate of domestic violencerelated assault was nearly five times as high as the rate of the total femalepopulation (table 3A.11.19).More information on victims, female victims and juvenile victims recorded byVictoria Police for murder, assault, sexual assault and sexual assault against victimsaged 0–15 can be found in tables 3A.11.15–26.113