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Youth suicide rate rises, sparking ‘cluster’ concerns – Ballina Shire Advocate
The number of young Aussies who suicided last year has increased, prompting concerns about the scale of the youth mental health crisis and suicide “clusters”.
Thousands of Australian lives were lost to suicide last year with alarming new figures showing an increase in the number of adults and young people dying by suicide, prompting concerns about the suicide “clusters” which have devastated families and friends.
New cause of death data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has laid bare the extent of the nation’s suicide crisis – with 3318 lives lost to suicide across Australia in 2019, 937 of which were in NSW alone.
The rate of suicide across…
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