Magic. Aljazeera bringing the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Just you. Know when welcome once again to rewind im come all santa maria since sound as they were english launched back in 2006 weve been adding to our collection of Award Winning films year by year and here on rewind were showcasing some of them once again today its a one on one east film about the abnormally high suicide rate among young indigenous australians each year more than 100. 00 aboriginals choose to end their lives they are twice as likely to commit suicide as other restrains in kimberley and Western Australia tree stumps they use to mark the site of a suicide and programs based on ancient rituals have been developed to try to help young people find their way from 2012 this is australias last generation. Remote and picturesque. The kimberley in north west australia. A vast area 3 times the size of england. The traditional lands of the only good range is. Most needed. To take care of the land. A using their bush skills. Study but its a Different Bank that ensures. All works for whatever major stuff but recently these ranges have had to a quiet a new set of skills. To respond to some lloyd no gets younger brother last year for the suicide spot the only good ranges to take up a suicide intervention course i lost my little brother. Last year. We had my birthday. Mowanjum has a population of 350 people. And is about 8 kilometers away from the town of. It situated in the kimberley. The week before we arrived there had been another 5 suicides in the region. Its taboo to talk about the aboriginal culture to even say the name of someone who has passed away but weve been invited to speak with people in the community. Theres been more suicides there than anywhere else in the cooling region just about every Single Family has been touched by suicide. Is a suicide response worker for the derby and area has been working here for more than 17 news her normal has become in this community. Very year old kids. Want to hang. Out the tree were identified trees that they want to hang. Out in the kimberley region. In the kimberley region its probably 30 completed in the last 12 months. And thats an epidemic. Of the spot where people have committed suicide. Serving as an eerie reminder of the on timely deaths. Families guard down. I dont like that i want to see it brings back. Bad memories but that night. When. Best friend killed himself here a few months ago he was just 18 years old if someone commits suicide it affects the whole community. One big family. Its not the 1st time a man has had to deal with the death of someone close to him. When i was only an adolescent. Committing suicide i didnt know what for. Just turning 18 so i think about it too. And the sound of suicide in his sleep. I just like. People shouting in the night saying somebody help this person want to. Hang himself. Lloyd no get believes a lack of opportunity is contributing to a downward spiral. Theres nothing there for them but alcohol and drugs just nothing exciting or good for them to enjoy. Ogilvy takes us to a popular spot the adults and children go to drink alcohol kimberlys allowing him to drink more 3 times as much ill hold you know him try to you know normal sitting for the boys to have a drink is 90 cans of beer. Thats copious amount you know. And the drink that you and i and then go back next time get a sign with often the whole white on a hole. And not even flinch. Terence james often finds himself in a drug and alcohol haze we go on to have a good time you know. And broke some of weed. A few years ago when he was high and depressed terence tried to hang himself. As i hear that happened in the. Well here. For with the rope he takes me to the site of his Suicide Attempt oh. Come over here to help me understand how youre feeling that day. It was getting dark going from going on. Waist the truck and going and one of my mind in my mind that school blank you know the day no one went over here to im one of them i wasnt. Getting one. I dont know just. Like nobody dont then worry what mean and oh you know more and more and more so. The public and were all going to grab the rope and. Were home and. Were doing a for you were doing a good local. Where the Northern Territory would meet us so aside right its 3 and a half times the National Average wedding to an indigenous cant just say how culturally appropriate methods are being used to heal and say hey im. David cole runs belling you which means creation in the local language its about giving the kids a safe place and a culturally appropriate place to just have some time out get away from things play them on share some tools of the. Can some say its my understanding and basically help them work through the challenges i got. To just let things go and how is it culturally appropriate the biggest aspect of the problem is cultural reconnection its getting the kids to build their selfesteem and true identity and culture and thats thats a key component in the program. 6 camps. For about a week at this 19 high risk youths are being put to task. For. Making traditional weapons to help break connect them to their ancient culture. More than 40000 years of history. With traditional dance. And smoking ceremonies to cleanse. All but one of these adolescents have thought of committing suicide and are recovering from drug and alcohol addictions. We cant identify them because theyre under age ranging from 12 to 16 years old. To early and hoping to heal. You know the violence the broken families the loss of identity the various forms of abuse physical mental emotional. Substance abuse drug and alcohol. Can be drug and alcohol around the kids and ultimately the kids being embroiled in that Substance Abuse themselves. Ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback is 1st indigenous psychologist professor pat dudgeon. Says Substance Abuse is a symptom of largest social issues i think that Indigenous People are still dealing with all the problems that are a consequence from. All of that prying has been left unattended and just manifested through the generations and that plane passed on to the children and site has led to the children that we have today who are at the end of that pain that dont understand the pain that i must understand where it comes from and i dont understand why they must endure such pain. Ringback this 15 year old who can bring is one boy who wanted to end his life. She kind of man you just. Dont feel lucky. Now so. What do you do with that anger. Do bad things. Because. Thats where you find the drunks and stuff like that with a little help from nature david cole is trying to show these adolescents how to isolate their problems. If theres violence broken family if theres been past abuse if theres been whatever it is every challenge every problem that bothers you or is on your mind i want you to get iraq i want you to just paul along the road to the war. The bigger the problem the bigger the rock. How does it how do they feel is it hurting. And thats what problems do you if you refuse to find ways of releasing it if you will have to carry this pine tree a whole lot you have to learn you have to be willing to learn how to let go i had a lot of sort of pre. Let. Young people need to be given. That they culture and being cultural activities and feel that they are part of a community and a cultural community. So were only going to a small healing session a meditation. To finish for last not. This is the healing circle. An indigenous version of a counseling session. Which is going to go through a very. Reading meditation technique. In accordance with aboriginal custom the young boys to speak at the healing circle but theyre encouraged to. Go but for the old who feel like were. Both problem. Cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. Ok. Like you and i. Respect. The challenge lies in keeping these boys on track after they leave the balun you cant its really hard its hard for us because. When we were up 30 percent of the kids are extreme heart risk area and there were kids to be deeply involved in Substance Abuse and the ones who were looking at some sort of an option for the scope. So we feel a lack of resources and lack of appropriate funding and support we we cant do adequate follow up Marion Scrymgour is an outgoing state minister in the Northern Territory government she skeptical that money from a controversial government package is reaching indigenous communities under the Northern TerritoryEmergency Response there was really story 1000000000. 00 thats significant tax payers money thats gone into what people think has gone into these communities a lot of their money is spent on bureaucrats consultants a lot of people fly in fly out from these communities there is very little money that goes into programs and for working with families working with communities so that they can build it and start dealing with that with the trauma. She says shes leaving politics because she doesnt believe its hoping aboriginals enough heck can i sit in this job any longer doing what im doing. Weve got i 10 year olds you know young kids killing themselves. Its clear something is wrong. Their communities have got to start taking some strong staying. Because theres not going to be a general. Left as. Were heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous land just amusing go the community of state made the highest rates of having time know how at its highest point of the elderly lady decided to take matters into their own hands. Is a ski beach she says it was the hanging suicide of a 21 year old that sparked a cluster of other suicides in her community he was the 1st one to commit suicide the 1st time his community in this community. Youngest sister also committed suicide that was when her family took action 7 years ago creating a volunteer Service Called the mangas Suicide Prevention group what do you do to prevent suicide in the community. With our walk me and my sisters we walk the streets and listen for the noise where its coming from. The women run a 24 hour suicide watch often patrolling the streets with only small torches they mediate in family issues and mental troubled youths will probably up the next day go to their house and sit down have a cup or 2 read with their peers then im sort of in a nodding angry with them but like cancelling. Local police say the groups work has been invaluable for boys that since theyve become operating that i think theres been a source saw it in their area immediately while suicide numbers have dropped theres been a shop rise in attempted suicides looking at the figures from 32000. 00 treated to have an eye where there was 40 or 10 now and just this 2 year period 2 and a half hes the 113. 00 thats a significant increase. Shankara juarez nick still bears the rope marks from his Suicide Attempt to weeks ago. Group intervened just in time to save the 23 year old. 2 months. The reason ive been doing this was because my biggest problem is with alcohol and once i start Drinking Alcohol i start losing control i would think things like my family doesnt love me and i want to go hang myself with them and i dont want to learn to new i want to change my life a better life so that i can spend time with my son go hunting and fishing with him and do good thing unless. The. Back in mowanjum terence tells me he wants to cut down the tree where he attempted suicide. Or lucrative. You know. To me thats a staple someone going forward. But then remove something of a symbol that. They want to end their life. In its own way the community too is giving itself the space to heal. Trees were put families but people commit suicide to chop them down but we dont actually care because the time it takes to grow back gives us the time to get over forget about it. While suicide remains a scourge in aboriginal communities across astray it appears that family and culture is indigenous australia is best hope to saving the young. Australia of last generation so that was back in 2012 which leads us to ask how successful have those schemes been in reducing the suicide rate where were joined now by psychologist professor pat dudgeon who you recognize from the film a former commissioner of the stray and National MentalHealth Commission she teaches at the university of Western Australia and actually runs a number of Suicide Prevention projects focusing on aboriginal communities its great to have you with us here on ri one professor dudgeon you really believe then that that local approach works oh absolutely look every channel interest right on the people have been just some pad theres a whole lot of issues facing women not just us and a stride in this old. Would remain issues for Indigenous People of settler countries such as in new zealand canada and the states where recovery from. Is a really important issue and what we do on the names that to enable people to become empowered to control their own destinies to control their iron resources to decide what the problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is back in 2012 when the film was made the would epidemic was used to describe that situation in Western Australia and im not suggesting for a moment that this would be fixed overnight but we are now 6 years down the track the levels are still high there were some reports which talk about 100 times the National Average in Western Australia. I mean would you have expected or certainly hoped for it to have come down more local i think thats. Sometimes those figures have been a tad sensationalized suicide writes however having said that suicide rites do remind very hard i was still twice the National Average suicide is the 5th leading cause of death and some my groups Indigenous People are 7 times more likely to type their laws of the people and Northern Territory actually is im a genius as. Having the greatest state average of suicide when you have having a high suicide right something is going terribly wrong you mentioned some other countries a little bit earlier places like new zealand and canada what is the common factor with these indigenous communities around the world including the aboriginal australia that leads to the high suicide rates ah look theres a commonality of a range of Different Things but odd side that certainly i think there is an affinity with those other countries because they were Indigenous People in those countries the countries were taken and sometimes very almost tongs very brutally so weve had processes of colonize asian you know being removed genocides being removed off country put into reserves missions residential schools and then having new laws dictated to enforce legislation so there is a history told the countries that are about people losing their they draw its losing their countries and losing their human rights which needs to be we need to go into recovery about certainly in a stride. There was denial of that that process of history thats now starting to change chinese around certainly are proud then Prime Minister kevin rudds apology to the stolen generations was one of the guys really his. Sturrock all moments where there was an acknowledgment of the harm done and a genuine polity given for that hound so i think that we as a nation can start healing when ownership and and there is a truce or non est between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the National MentalHealth Commission its been a pleasure talking to thank you for joining us my pleasure kemal and that is it from us to join us again next week and also be sure to check out the rewind page at aljazeera dot com for more films from the series im come on santa maria from the whole team thanks for joining us so you can see. June on out to sea and 3 years into the blockade we look at the future of the g. C. C. 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