Summary: This report looks at the numbers and rates of young people who were in youth detention in Australia due to their involvement or alleged involvement in crime. It focuses on trends over the 4-year period from the June quarter 2010 to the June quarter 2014. Fewer than 1,000 young people in detention on an...

Federal MPmBob Katter claims a farmer commits suicide every four days in Australia.

The Australian Institute of Family Studies was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care to evaluate the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy, which ran from 1995 to 1999. Executive summary The National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy was an initiative of the Commonwealth Government to provide a coordinated approach to youth suicide prevention...

Overview: This paper provides a detailed assessment of Australia's progress in suicide prevention. Written in response to the landmark World Health Organisation report Preventing Suicide: A global imperative, the National Coalition for Suicide Prevention, led by Suicide Prevention Australia, looks at the report findings in relation to Australia and suicide prevention, it explores what we...

This on-demand webcast (held on 10 September 2014) was hosted by news and current affairs journalist Mike Munro and is just over an hour of expert panellist discussion in relation to Australia’s response to the first ever World Health Organisation (WHO) World Suicide Report. Online viewers were also invited to submit questions throughout the discussion...