We need change in attitude on suicide prevention as death toll reaches 3000 per year

By Professor John Mendoza
Updated May 5 2015 - 12:13am, first published 12:00am
Australia needs to do better when it comes to preventing suicide.
Australia needs to do better when it comes to preventing suicide.

Despite the fact that on any given day in Australia more than double the number of people will die prematurely from suicide than road accidents, suicide and suicide prevention are given little prominence in the media or by government.

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