the smaller a community - the less likely suicide

WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 24/12/2014 - 2:19pm

Last updated: 5 October 2015

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Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Aboriginal suicide rates
Jens Korff
Creative Spirits
The Stringer
Dr Paul Brown
Aboriginal Suicide
Sovereign Union
Gerry Georgatos
Indymedia Australia
Depression and suicide prevention
Suicide prevention
Professor Pat Dudgeon
A Professor Roz Walker
World Suicide Prevention Day
It is racism killing our people - suicides born of racism
Dr Woolombi Waters
Culture Is Life
The Elders Speak
the smaller a community - the less likely suicide
Eggington
Indigenous Youth Suicide Must End
Indigenous youth suicide

WGAR News: "It is racism killing our people - suicides born of racism": Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 21/12/2014 - 4:57pm

Newsletter date: 26 December 2014

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
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aboriginal
Aboriginal Suicide and Self-harm
racism
suicides
trauma
Dr Woolombi Waters
The Stringer
To end our trauma government must stop the assault on our People and our Culture
Culture Is Life - The Elders Report
The Elders Report
The Elders Speak
Gerry Georgatos
the smaller a community - the less likely suicide
NIRS - Suicide - crime rates to increase if homelands close - Eggington
Dennis Eggington
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Warren Barnsley with Koori Radio
Plans to close Aboriginal homelands/remote communities in WA and SA
Erin Parke
ABC News
Kimberley region records seven suicides in seven weeks
Rachelle Irving
Crikey
Trauma in the Kimberley
Angharad Owens-Strauss
SMH
Sydney Morning Herald
Children with suicidal behaviour using lethal methods

WGAR News: Productivity Commission statistics highlight continuing Stolen Generation: Grandmothers Against Removals (GMAR)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 26/11/2014 - 9:38am

Newsletter date: 27 November 2014

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WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

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Australia
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Western Australia
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aboriginal
Aboriginal communities
GMAR
Grandmothers Against Removals
productivity commission
new stolen generation
continuing Stolen Generation
Amy McQuire
New Matilda
removal of Aboriginal children
Stolen Generations
Gerry Georgatos
The Stringer
black deaths in custody
police shot man dead who had no firearm
Mark Colvin
campaign to stop jailing mentally ill without conviction grows
jailing mentally ill
Chris Uhlmann
youth suicide
Indigenous youth suicide
the smaller a community - the less likely suicide
Rachel Siewert
Greens
Indigenous imprisonment and suicide
Aboriginal Suicide
Aboriginal imprisonment