A Fine Mess: [Trigger warning suicide, domestic abuse] Indigenous Australian women hospitalised for assault at 80 times the rate of...
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GIRLS as young as 11 are committing suicide at an unprecedented rate in Northern Territory indigenous communities where family violence is rife. Dr Howard Bath, the territory’s outspoken Children’s Commissioner, told The Saturday Age this week that girls now account for a…
This has been an issue for a long time. Spread the word people. The government needs to do something constructive and worthwhile about this. Sending the army out there isn’t productive.
Unfortunately it looks like the government is completely out of ideas, in my opinion. Even ideas taken from the community and its leaders to solve these problems hasn’t seemed to help any of the issues for those in remote communities to any notable degree :(
(Source: theage.com.au)
