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| UpdatedMany stories about children in state care are negative ones. A group of brave young people are breaking the stereotype to speak out about the stigma attached to their situation that was not of their making.
Topics: children, family-and-children, community-and-society, states-and-territories, suicide, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Topics: suicide, regional, health-administration, regional-development, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, leonora-6438
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Community leaders in Western Australia's Goldfields region call for more permanent suicide prevention services.
Topics: suicide, health-administration, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, leonora-6438
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| UpdatedAustralia's defence community must change its culture and end negative stereotypes about mental health to ensure members and veterans get the help they need, a national report has found.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, defence-and-national-security, mental-health, suicide, australia
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Mental health organisations call for the Federal Government to set a suicide reduction target, saying they need action instead of "good intentions".
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, mental-health, health, federal-government, government-and-politics, health-policy, australia
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| UpdatedTasmanian teenagers hope the latest report on their wellbeing showing high suicide rates will be a wake-up call to the Government.
Topics: suicide, rural-youth, youth, mental-health, tas
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Topics: suicide, community-and-society, depression, berri-5343
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Topics: suicide, community-and-society, depression, berri-5343
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Blue balloons lift up into the sky as a regional community comes together to break the silence surrounding suicide.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, mental-health, renmark-5341
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Topics: suicide, community-and-society, berri-5343
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Topics: mental-health, suicide, berri-5343
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Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie says she is disgusted by a seven-month delay in the Federal Government's veteran suicide prevention trial first announced in August last year.
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Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, suicide, community-development, community-organisations, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, regional, leonora-6438
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The West Australian mining town of Leonora is a community in a constant state of mourning.
In the past 18 months alone, six indigenous youths have committed suicide. Matt Taylor is the town's undertaker. Three weeks ago he buried his own son.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, leonora-6438
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Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, suicide, community-development, community-organisations, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, regional, leonora-6438
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Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, suicide, community-development, community-organisations, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, regional, leonora-6438
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| UpdatedIn a WA community still recovering from a spate of Aboriginal suicides, the son of the town undertaker has become the latest person to take his life.
Topics: suicide, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, regional-development, regional, death, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, leonora-6438
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| UpdatedMental health advocates fear tens of thousands of Australians might miss out on mental health support that has been a life saving service for many.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, mental-health, health, federal-government, government-and-politics, health-policy, social-policy, australia, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAuthor Nikki Gemmell found it hard listening to her elderly mother when she said euthanasia was a way to release her from debilitating chronic pain. "Don't you want to see the grandkids grow up?" she would ask.
Topics: euthanasia, suicide, older-people, diseases-and-disorders, family, drugs-and-substance-abuse, australia
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| UpdatedThe parents of an Aboriginal man on life support in a Perth hospital reject claims by authorities that he tried to kill himself in Hakea remand prison.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, prisons-and-punishment, suicide, perth-6000
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When Zach McLoughlin-Dore committed suicide a year ago, his mum Kate had no warning. Now, she is speaking out to raise awareness of a pressing problem.
Topics: suicide, social-media, australia
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| UpdatedKate McLoughlin saw how much her son Zach was on social media and how it affected him. She can't help but feel it makes kids less resilient and may have contributed to his suicide.
Topics: suicide, community-and-society, social-media, australia
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| UpdatedThe family of a poker player who took his life at The Star Casino's hotel in Sydney want answers about what happened to their loved one.
Topics: gambling, community-and-society, suicide, sydney-2000, nsw, australia