10.1 Physical harm

Physical harm includes injuries that affect the physiological body and tissue and could include:

Physical injury – supporting evidence requirements
Mandatory evidence Applicants must provide detail in their application form about the injury. Recommended evidence Applicants are recommended to provide one of the following documents that detail their injury or injuries: report or letter from a medical practitioner report or letter by a social worker or other support worker (for example, from an Orange Door or specialist sexual assault service) hospital records medical records medical certificates Victim Impact Statement court documents including judgments, sentencing remarks, or Family Violence Intervention Orders, Family Violence Safety Notices or Personal Safety Intervention Orders applied for by police. Additional evidence Applicants may want to consider providing additional documents supporting their injury. These documents could include: statement made to police photographs of the injury accompanied by a statutory declaration with a description of the injury to prove that the injury was sustained as a direct result of the violent act invoice or receipt as evidence of treatment the victim received in relation to the injury, or any other relevant document. The FAS will also request information from the police about the violent act, which may include information about the victim’s injury.

Physical injury – supporting evidence requirements

Applicants must provide detail in their application form about the injury.

Applicants are recommended to provide one of the following documents that detail their injury or injuries:

report or letter from a medical practitioner
report or letter by a social worker or other support worker (for example, from an Orange Door or specialist sexual assault service)
hospital records
medical records
medical certificates
Victim Impact Statement
court documents including judgments, sentencing remarks, or
Family Violence Intervention Orders, Family Violence Safety Notices or Personal Safety Intervention Orders applied for by police.

Applicants may want to consider providing additional documents supporting their injury. These documents could include:

statement made to police
photographs of the injury accompanied by a statutory declaration with a description of the injury to prove that the injury was sustained as a direct result of the violent act
invoice or receipt as evidence of treatment the victim received in relation to the injury, or
any other relevant document.

The FAS will also request information from the police about the violent act, which may include information about the victim’s injury.

Updated 16 October 2024