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The figure highlights Australia s problem of an extremely high suicide rate among the indigenous populace, with up to 10 per cent of all indigenous deaths caused by people taking their own lives.
Among the positive trends noted in the report was an improvement in mortality rates and an increase in the number of children finishing school.
But family and community violence rates had stagnated between 2002 and 2014-2015, according to the report, affecting around one in five of the adult indigenous population. Shocking and shameful
The findings contained in the report caused politicians and activists to voice deep concern.
An indigenous leader from Western Australia, Senator Patrick Dodson, called the high rates of suicide shocking and shameful.
Anniversary highlights Aboriginal deaths in custody crisis
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15/04/2021 - 05:10 Despite calls for sweeping reforms in 1991, a spate of recent fatalities and soaring rates of Aboriginal incarceration have highlighted failures to act PATRICK HAMILTON AFP/File 4 min
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Thirty years after sweeping reforms were recommended to end the injustice of Indigenous deaths in Australian custody, a spate of recent fatalities and soaring rates of Aboriginal incarceration have highlighted failures to act.
Jailing children as young as 10, persistent racist attitudes and tough law-and-order policies all contribute to what has been called as a national shame by Aboriginal leaders.
More than 450 Indigenous fatalities have been recorded since the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was published in 1991, including five since early March.
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