Australia’s abominable secret: A suicide crisis among children

By Judith Crispin Aboriginal Australians are dying. Needlessly. We are losing three Aboriginal people a week to suicide, from a population that is just over half a million, and an Indigenous person is four times more likely to take their own life than a non-Indigenous person. I am working with the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu in the…

Source: Indigenous suicide prevention in the Digital Age – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The death last month of a 10-year-old Indigenous girl in a remote WA community intensifies the need for a clearer approach to suicide prevention.

Source: Australia’s Indigenous youth suicide crisis | The Saturday Paper