Published: February 06, 2019
Rates of suicide among children are worsening, and experts say the driving cause is poverty and a sense of hopelessness
The youngest of the 13 people whose deaths formed the basis for the most recent coronial inquiry into Aboriginal youth suicides in Western Australia was just 10 years old when she took her life on 3 March 2016.
They were born between 1991 and 2006, in communities around the Kimberley region of Western Australia and in the Northern Territory. They died between 20 November 2012 and 24 March 2013 at Halls Creek, Kununurra, Broome, Wyndham and in smaller remote Aboriginal communities in between.
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