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Noongar peoples 3 times the suicide rate of national Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander suicide rate - The Noongar peoples of Western Australia as a distinct population group are the nation's most at risk population group to suicide. The suicide toll ...

Aboriginal self-determination key to life-saving health efforts  - Let’s hope this speed is the starting point for a wider inquiry — one that looks not just at what’s happening in Northern Territory detention centres, but why young Aboriginal people are 25 times more likely to end up in detention centres than non-Aboriginal youth, and what is going so wrong in regions such as the Kimberley that Aboriginal children left behind are up to six times more likely to commit suicide than

Wider suicide prevention focus urged : A man who has lost family members to suicide says governments need to be held to account over high suicide rates among Aboriginal people. The Indigenous suicide rate is about double that of other Australians . Tauto Sansbury has lost nephews, nieces ...

Aboriginal elders unite to help beat youth suicide  - AN unprecedented rise in self harm and suicide among indigenous youth can ... Nelson from Derby in Western Australia's Kimberley region, where there is on ... “In 1991 in the Northern Territory, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Critical response team to tackle 'ongoing tragedy' of Indigenous suicide  - The $1m critical response project is being trialled in Western Australia , which has the highest rates of Aboriginal suicide in the country, with a view to ...

Understanding the abominable jail & suicide rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders  - The national trend for suicide for the Australian population is 10 per 100,000 population but for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders standalone the ...

The real reason for the indigenous suicide crisis which has seen five Aboriginal girls ... - A failure to address issues facing the Aboriginal community is partly to blame for Australia's Indigenous youth suicide crisis, experts claim. An alarming ...

Education central to preventing Aboriginal youth suicide - In Australia's Kimberley region, Aboriginal towns have some of the highest suicide rates in the world. This year, 13 children took their lives, five of them ...

Critical response team to tackle 'ongoing tragedy' of Indigenous suicide  - The $1m critical response project is being trialled in Western Australia , which has the highest rates of Aboriginal suicide in the country, with a view to ...

Eleven-year-old Aboriginal boy commits suicide  - Two months ago, Peter Little, an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, tragically committed suicide in the Western Australian city of Geraldton. While the death ...

Family from remote WA town travel to Canberra for launch of suicide report - In 2014 a federally funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Suicide ... among Aboriginal people, twice as high as non- Aboriginal people in Australia .

Project to tackle high Indigenous suicide rate : By Eric Tlozek A Darwin-based health research institute has been selected to assist a Federal Government project aiming to tackle the high rates of Aboriginal suicide . The Menzies School of Health Research will help develop Australia's first national ...

Why Niggerhead Rock and Suicide Bay need Tasmanian Aboriginal names - Suicide Bay and Victory Hill are Tasmanian places with bloody histories and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) wants them replaced with ...

Project to tackle high Indigenous suicide rate - ABC News ... : A Darwin-based health research institute has been selected to assist a Federal Government project aiming to tackle the high rates of Aboriginal suicide .

Prof Procter says in South Australia the age standardised suicide rate has ... While there is a slight downward trend in Aboriginal suicide rates in SA, ... View article...

996 Aboriginal deaths by suicide – another shameful Australian record  -  Australia's Aboriginal peoples are suiciding at the world's highest rates. Standalone, racially Aboriginal peoples endure horrific statistics unparalleled by the rest  ...

Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture  - AT DON Dale juvenile detention centre, a 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal ... Western Australia is the mother of jailers of the nation's Aboriginal and ...

996 deaths by suicide – one in 24 die by suicide  -  Australia's Aboriginal peoples are suiciding at the world's highest rates. Standalone, racially Aboriginal peoples endure horrific statistics unparalleled by the rest  ...

WA had the highest age-standardised rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia between 2016 and 2019, ... View article...

996 deaths by suicide – one in 24 die by suicide  -  Australia's Aboriginal peoples are suiciding at the world's highest rates. Standalone, racially Aboriginal peoples endure horrific statistics unparalleled by the rest  ...