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Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Indigenous Suicide Crisis Living in safe and clean environments, having access to modern services that individuals find personally meaningful, possessing the necessary skills to function in the 21st century, developing a robust sense of self-worth, engaging in personally meaningful activities, and practising personal responsibility. These are the recommendations of a new Centre for Independent Studies report by Indigenous researcher Anthony Dillon, Ph.D, to address the crisis of high suicide rates among Indigenous Australians. Dillon’s recommendations ta...

Indigenous populations around the world are more likely to be infected by or die of Covid-19 with one notable exception; Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders).

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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 ac...

Print text only Cancel Mililma May was not even born when a royal commission was investigating high Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody. But she does recall being five years old and ducking down in her family's car with her cousins when they passed a police station. "Because we were scared of the police," Ms May said. "My cousins and I, in that moment we had no reason to be scared that we'd done anything wrong and yet we still ducked and hid." Ms May, a Larrakia Tiwi woman, said that feeling of "smallness" was common for Aboriginal people when interacting with police.