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| Subject: OZschwitz Slave Pen: suicide rate far exceeds the road toll Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:03 pm | |
| The recent revelation that each day more than eight Australians kill themselves was startling and confronting but perhaps even worse was learning that another 200 of us attempt suicide every day and do not succeed.
We should be grateful to Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister who was recently elected the chairman of the board of beyondblue, for bringing these grim statistics to our attention. A few days ago, in a speech at the University of Adelaide, she elaborated on the figures with the welcome announcement that she would lead beyondblue from its former mission of awareness raising to one of suicide prevention.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/mental-illness-isnt-the-only-reason-for-suicide-20170330-gvaa1p.html |
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