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How three suicide survivors turned their lives around

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How three suicide survivors turned their lives around - Kim Borrowdale, deputy CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia , says education and compassion are needed to halt the toll. "There are persistent ...

Indigenous hunters cruel to sealife, says Warren Entsch

Indigenous hunters cruel to sealife, says Warren Entsch - Liberal MP Warren Entsch has questioned why Australia has been so quick to oppose Japanese whaling but not paid the same attention to the plight ...

Relative Of Dead Aboriginal Teen Takes Her Own Life At Memorial Site

Relative Of Dead Aboriginal Teen Takes Her Own Life At Memorial Site - Western Australia has long been rocked by high rates of Indigenous suicide. In the small town of Leonora, next to Kalgoorlie, there have been at least ...

Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women

Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women - Gender inequality is a problem, say 69% of young Australian women .... Fourteen individuals – 2% of the total – identified as Aboriginal Australian  ...

Funeral, after funeral, after funeral'

Funeral, after funeral, after funeral' - More than 150 Aboriginal people took their lives in 2015, the highest figure ever recorded nationally. Suicide ... Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and Assistant Minister for Health Ken Wyatt, an indigenous man from Western Australia .

Australian Senate joins push to repatriate Indigenous artefacts from British Museum

Australian Senate joins push to repatriate Indigenous artefacts from British Museum - Rodney Kelly, who is a descendant of the Gweagal warrior Cooman who was shot by Captain James Cook's men in 1770. He is campaigning for his ...

Shock blow for tragic teen's family

Shock blow for tragic teen's family - The Goldfields is among many Australian regions plagued by suicides and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner ...

Ice use 'becoming intergenerational' in Indigenous communities, conference in Adelaide to hear

Ice use 'becoming intergenerational' in Indigenous communities, conference in Adelaide to hear - Ice use 'becoming intergenerational' in Indigenous communities, ... according to the director of South Australia's Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council.