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Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?

  • Written by Pat Dudgeon, Professor, The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, University of Western Australia
Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?Over the past five years, one in every four children who died by suicide in Australia was Indigenous.Shutterstock

This article was written with Rob McPhee, Deputy CEO of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service and co-chair of the Commonwealth-funded Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Working Group.


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