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| UpdatedA Brisbane mother speaks of her anguish at her son's death, after he was allegedly subject to continuous bullying because of his sexuality.
Topics: education, bullying, sexuality, gays-and-lesbians, suicide, aspley-4034, brisbane-4000, qld
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Fly-in fly-out workers and their partners are struggling with emotional and sexual disconnection, and one therapist says the problem is still not being acknowledged.
Topics: mental-health, work, relationships, family, suicide, depression, darwin-0800
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People from farming communities affected by suicide are being asked to complete an in-depth survey to help researchers better understand the impact suicide has on families left behind.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, farm-labour, agribusiness, naracoorte-5271, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA leaked New South Wales Police report says Defence failed to cooperate with its investigation into the so-called Jedi Council sex scandal.
Topics: defence-forces, law-crime-and-justice, suicide, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia has one of the highest rates of Indigenous suicide in the country, and in one area almost every resident has been touched by a tragedy.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, leonora-6438, wa, australia
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| UpdatedMore nurses die from deliberate drug overdose than any other health care professionals, according to a landmark new study that experts say raises real concerns about whether enough is being done to monitor health workers for mental health problems and drug use.
Topics: health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, death, suicide, monash-university-3800
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| UpdatedMurray O'Hanlon's family breakdown made him reluctant to share his story with others, until he worked out that opening up would save him.
Topics: mental-health, mens-health, men, suicide, australia
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Albury's Annette Baker is recognised for a winter solstice event that supported people who had lost a loved one to suicide.
Topics: mental-health, suicide, awards-and-prizes, albury-2640
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Topics: mental-health, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, health, community-and-society, suicide, albury-2640
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Topics: suicide, awards-and-prizes, human-interest, mental-health, community-and-society, albury-2640
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| UpdatedThe WA Government fails to adequately respond to recommendations from 40 previous inquiries into Aboriginal youth suicide over the past 15 years, a new report finds.
Topics: suicide, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, wa
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| UpdatedA coroner blames the "lamentable state" of South Australia's mental health system for a Queensland man's death at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Topics: courts-and-trials, death, mental-health, suicide, adelaide-5000, sa, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedThe suicide rate for roadies in the entertainment industry is double the national average, new research indicates, and a ticket levy is being proposed help fund supporting them.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, bands-and-artists, suicide, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A coronial inquest finds an Iraqi man who died in a Newcastle office had experienced "extreme tragedy".
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, refugees, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedRosalie Martin, a speech pathologist who helps prisoners learn to read, is named 2017 Tasmanian Australian of the Year.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, community-and-society, suicide, education, environment, tas
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Pat Dodson fought back tears while telling the story of a 12-year-old boy who took his own life, at the launch in Canberra of a report into Indigenous suicide.
Topics: suicide, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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| UpdatedAboriginal senator Pat Dodson fights back tears while calling for action on Indigenous suicide, at the launch of a report following a year-long investigation.
Topics: suicide, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health-policy, mental-health, australia, wa, kalgoorlie-6430, broome-6725, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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| UpdatedAlmost a year ago, Norma Ashwin's teenage son took his own life. Today she wants action, as a new report on Aboriginal suicide prevention is released.
Topics: suicide, federal-government, medical-research, research, aboriginal, mental-health, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, leonora-6438
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Topics: aboriginal, suicide, federal-government, medical-research, research-organisations, leonora-6438
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Hobart men are being asked to lose their ego and their clothes for an hour of yoga to help raise money and awareness for mental health.
Topics: mens-health, mental-health, charities, television, community-and-society, suicide, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedLoved ones of the parents and their two children who died in a murder-suicide on Sydney's northern beaches use a funeral mass to call on society to better support families of children with disabilities.
Topics: suicide, murder-and-manslaughter, disabilities, family-and-children, primary-schools, davidson-2085, sydney-2000, nsw, wahroonga-2076
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| UpdatedNSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione is pushing for police officers who have taken their own lives to be remembered on the National Police Memorial, but says he is willing to go it alone if other states do not agree.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, suicide, nsw, australia, sydney-2000, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedMore than half of Australian women feel unsafe walking alone at night, according to a new report that also found Australia performing poorly in terms of income equality, incarceration rates and other key social issues.
Topics: women, womens-health, safety, community-organisations, prisons-and-punishment, suicide, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, work, volunteers, australia
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Residents in the north-east Arnhem Land community of Yirrkala tell the NT Royal Commission their young people are being lost to foster parents, youth detention and suicide.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, suicide, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, yirrkala-0880, nt, australia
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| UpdatedFor two years Max Bromson's family has lived in fear of criminal prosecution after watching him take a lethal dose of an illegal drug. Now they have been cleared, and say they want people to see footage of his final moments.
Topics: euthanasia, suicide, adelaide-5000