News Articles
The West Australian – Ken Wyatt’s Line in the Sand One in Four
Daily Mail UK – The stats that shame Australia: A quarter of all Aboriginal children’s deaths are suicide
Croakey Times –Debating Aboriginal identity: the untold health impacts
Sarajevo Times – Australian People in Mourning Over Bushfires: We Grieve because Country is Wounded and Bleeding
The West Australian – She Just Felt Like There Was No Escape
ECU News – Breaking the silence – what it means to be Indigenous and queer
SBS/NITV news – Indigenous Australians are three times more likely to suffer a mental illness
SBS/NITV news – Indigenous Community Yarrabah Opens Youth Hub
The Guardian – Archie Roach: ‘You can reach the darkest point in our life and come back, and come good’
The Guardian – ‘Horrific’ level of stigma: biggest barrier to suicide prevention is discrimination
Katherine Times – Suicide on the rise: We’re seeing a very worrying trend in young females
ABC Radio – Professor Pat Dudgeon – Reducing Australia’s Suicide Rates
News GP – Culture, care and reducing suicide risk
SMH – My life wasn’t worth living. Now it is. My aim is to work myself out of a job in suicide prevention
NATSILMH – The Foundations to Close the Mental Health Gap are in Place – But the Work Lies Ahead
Sydney Morning Herald – Mental Illness and suicide costing $500 million a day
United Nations Human Rights – World Mental Health Day 10 October 2019
NACCHO News Alert – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people met the criteria for psychological distress
The Age – Petty crimes, private jets and prison: How the WA government wastes millions punishing regional kids
ABC News – Mr World Australia, driven by life’s hard knocks, vies for global crown
Croakey News –New guidelines to improve care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at risk of self-harm and suicide
WAPHA – Unprecedented commitment to reducing suicide in the Kimberley
The Guardian – Guardian Australia’s The Killing Times wins prize in NSW premier’s history awards
SBS News – Australia has just got a new national suicide prevention adviser to tackle the mental health crisis
SBS News – Harm and family ruin are the top indicators for suicide according to the Coroner’s Report
Sydney Morning Herald – How do we cope?’ Nellie Flagg says these deaths can be prevented
The Australian – Labor pollies go bush to meet families touched by suicide
Triple J (ABC) – Indigenous suicide, constitutional recognition, and dating your mates
Mirage News – New mental health research draws wisdom from Aboriginal Elders
ABC News – Ex NRL player who attempted suicide has message for new government adviser
ABC News – Educational resources about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture
ABC News – Suicide strikes remote Kimberley community for second time in two months
ABC News Sydney – WA town using music to engage at-risk Indigenous kids and keep town suicide free
newsGP – ‘Not a new tragedy’: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides
UWA news – Federal funding boost for Indigenous mental health services
The Australian – Broken heart of a nation and 77 souls
The Australian – Families first in Burney’s bid to tackle suicide crisis
News.com.au – Australia’s male suicide epidemic is much worse than previously thought, new research shows
ABC RN Breakfast – This is what Indigenous leaders hope to see after the election
Amnesty – Eight issues behind Indigenous youth suicide
The Guardian – Australia must embrace ‘cultural safety’ if we are to close the gap
Buzzfeed – This Young Man Is Hopeful About The Future in Australia’s Worst Suicide Region
Buzzfeed – This Woman Grew Up In The Worst Suicide Region In Australia. Now She’s Working To End The Crisis
Mental Health Australia – CEO Update – Responding to Indigenous Suicide
The Guardian – ‘Unspeakable’: how can Australia stop the Indigenous suicide epidemic?
NITV News SBS – Inquest into Indigenous youth suicides suggests shift to ‘cultural healing’
NITV/SBS – You are light building resilience combat youth suicide
The West Australian – Indigenous youth health forum focus
Liberal Party media release – Support for Youth and Indigenous Mental Health
The Saturday Paper – Indigenous youth suicides continue
NITV News SBS – Why are we losing so many girls to suicide
The Conversation – Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?
ABC News – 24 young Indigenous people have died by suicide this year prompting a national campaign
The Guardian – The killing times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
The Guardian – Maps of Massacres
Black Dog Institute – Taking the Next Steps in Indigenous Suicide