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24 Feb

The Nature of Aboriginal Suicide:

“It is widely accepted that the causal pathways to Indigenous and non-Indigenous suicide differ, although the precise nature of the differences is so far unclear (see, for example, Ridani et al., 2015).” 1/30 #UluruStatement #AusUPR20 #Auspol

“Westerman (2003) in her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research explored this issue via the development of a unique screening tool, the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist (WASC-Y: Westerman, 2003, Westerman, 2007, in preparation),” 2/30

“to identify Aboriginal youth at risk of suicide, depression, alcohol, and drug use, impulsivity, and anxiety. This enabled the exploration of whether there were factors unique to Aboriginal youth (aged 13–17) that could account for suicide risk.” 3/30

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24 Feb

“Sveticic, Milner, and De Leo (2012) analysed all suicides in Queensland between 1994 and 2007, finding the non-Indigenous cases were almost twice as likely to have ever sought help for mental health problems than the Indigenous cases.” 1/5 #AusUPR20 #Auspol

“This likely reflects a lack of cultural appropriateness of mainstream mental health services. Historically, research has not focused upon determining whether there is a different set of risk factors for suicidal behaviours that can be established at a population level.” 2/5

“This has meant that existing intervention or prevention programmes that have established themselves within a mainstream context often struggle to translate into effective community-based strategies for at-risk Aboriginal people.” 3/5

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24 Feb

Whole of community suicide prevention forums for Aboriginal Australians: “As a country facing this growing tragedy, we still have no nationally accepted evidence-based programmes across the spectrum of early intervention and prevention activities.” 1/9 #AusUPR20 #Auspol

“In the face of all this distress, communities, and families are often left to respond to these critical events in the absence of adequate support both in terms of culturally and clinically impactful counselling and therapy” 2/9

“as well as intervention programmes that are able to successfully target at-risk individuals. A qualitative study was undertaken by Nasir et al. (2017) who consulted both Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members and organisations in Queensland” 3/9

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24 Feb

“Peak medical and health bodies have pressured Prime Minister Scott Morrison to declare Indigenous child suicides a national emergency after the deaths of five Aboriginal girls aged between 12 and 15 in January, 2018.”1/7 #UluruStatement #AusUPR20 #Auspol

“In a step towards tackling the crisis, chief executive of the National Mental Health Commission Christine Morgan was named Australia's national suicide prevention adviser. In response to the latest figures she released a statement which said:” 2/7

"This number represents our loved ones, who live in our diverse communities in each state and territory, rural and remote and in our suburban towns.” 3/7

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23 Feb

Fazel Chegeni wanted 'nothing but peace'. Instead he died alone in Australia's island prison. Ian Rintoul, said Chegeni’s death was “another needless detention death, this time of a refugee who should never have been in detention.” 1/16 #GameOver #TimeForAHome #Auspol

“The delay in processing and releasing him is inexcusable. He is a victim of the punitive regime detention regime that cares nothing for the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees,” he said. 2/16

More than 700 pages of the Faili Kurd’s immigration department file show how Fazel Chegeni was trapped in a bureaucracy that did not care for him. Over four years, scores of people within Australia’s immigration department pleaded on Chegeni’s behalf for him to be helped. 3/16

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23 Feb

The Australian Government undertook genocide through protection policies which involved, ‘Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group’, by removing First Nations children from families and forcing them onto state-controlled reserves. 1/9 #UluruStatement #AusUPR20

These reserves were usually organised by religious missionaries and the children were eventually adopted by white families or taken to work for them. 2/9

The children who experienced this form of genocide are known as the “Stolen Generations” which is recorded in the 1997 Bringing Them Report by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. 3/9

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