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§ Almost two-thirds of homicide victims were male (64% or 85 victims);

§ Almost two-thirds of homicide victims (63% or 82 victims) knew the offender, with a partner being identified as the offender in one in five homicides (21% or 28 victims);

§ Murder victims accounted for two-thirds (67% or 88 victims) of all homicide victims;

§ The most common location in which murder occurred was a residential location (68% or 59 victims); and

§ Of weapons used in murder, the most common was a knife (56% or 49 victims) followed by a firearm (31% or 27 victims).

There was a 14% increase in the number of sexual assault victims in New South Wales, from 6,671 in 2012 to a four year high of 7,608 in 2013. In New South Wales:

§ Four in five victims of sexual assault were female (81% or 6,190 victims);

§ Almost three-quarters of all sexual assault victims were aged 19 years or under (71% or 5,394 victims);

§ The most common location in which sexual assault occurred was a residential location (68% or 5,205 victims); and

§ Three in four victims of sexual assault (75% or 5,684 victims) knew the offender, with 29% (2,199 victims) identifying a family member.

§ Homicide and related offences (5.1 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons compared to 1.5 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons);

§ Sexual assault (291.8 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons compared to 89.2 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons); and

§ Kidnapping/abduction (9.7 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons compared to 3.6 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons).

In contrast, non-indigenous people had a higher victimisation rate than Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales for the following offences:

§ Robbery (51.0 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons, compared to 19.4 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons); and

§ Blackmail/extortion (1.3 victims per 100,000 non-indigenous persons, compared to 0.0 victims per 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons).

In New South Wales, a larger proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of sexual assault identified a family member as the offender than non-indigenous victims of sexual assault (43% or 271 victims compared to 28% or 1,762 victims). A residential location was the most common location for sexual assault to occur for both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-indigenous people (82% or 521 victims and 67% or 4,283 victims respectively).