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hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm. since they were english launched back in two thousand and six we've been adding to our collection of award winning films year by year and here on rewind we're showcasing some of them once again today it's a one of one hundred film about the abnormally high suicide rate among young indigenous australians. each year more than one hundred aboriginals choose to end their lives they are twice as likely to commit suicide as other australians in kimberley and western australia tree stumps are used to mark the sites of

a suicide and programs based on ancient rituals have been developed to try to help young people find their way from twenty twelve this is australia's last generation . remote and picturesque. the kimberley in north west australia. a vast area three times the size of england. the traditional lands of the good ranges. mostly did. their job to take care of the land. a using their bush skills. study but it's a different thing that. over the years. but

recently these ranges have had to acquire a new set of skills. to to respond to some lloyd know gets younger brother last year the suicide spot the only good ranges to take up a suicide intervention course i lost my little brother too so. last year. we had my birthday. mowanjum has a population of three hundred and fifty people. and is about eight kilometers away from the town of. it situated in the kimberley. the week before we arrived there had been another five suicides in the region. it's taboo to

talk about the aboriginal culture to even say the name of someone who has passed away but we've been invited to speak with people in the community. there's been more suicides there than anywhere else in the kimberley region just about every single family has been touched by suicide. is a suicide response worker for the derby and area has been working here for more than seventeen news her normal has become in this community. very year old kids. want to hang actually mark out their tree their identified trees that they want to hang. out in the kimberley region. in the kimberley region

it's probably thirty completed in the last twelve months. and that's a. mark the spot where people have committed suicide. serving as an eerie reminder of the on timely deaths. families kind of down. just like they don't want to see it brings back. bad memories but that night. when. best friend killed himself here a few months ago he was just eighteen years old if someone commits suicide it affects the whole community. one big family it's not the first time

a man has had to deal with the death of someone close to him. when i was only an adolescent. committing suicide i don't know what for. just turning eighteen so i think about it too. and the sound of suicide stirs him in his sleep. i just like. people shouting in the night saying somebody help this person want to commit suicide or hang themselves. void no good believes a lack of opportunity is contributing to a downward spiral. there's nothing there for them but alcohol and drugs just

nothing exciting or good for them to enjoy. it. takes us to a popular spot the adults and children go to drink alcohol kimberly's allowing him to drink three times as much i'll hold off and try to you know normal sitting for the boys to have a drink is ninety cans of beer. that's copious amount you know. and the drink that you and i and then go back next time good assignment of going the whole white on a home. and not even flinch. terence james often finds himself in a drug and alcohol haze. we go on to have a good time. going broke smoke weed.

a few years ago when he was high and depressed terence tried to hang himself. as a head that happened. before. for the rope he takes me to the site of his suicide attempt oh. come over here to help me understand how you're feeling that day. it was getting dark it is. going on. waist that broken. and one of my mind in my mind that school blank you know the day no one went over here to i'm one of the. oh getting one. just. like nobody don't. mean and oh you know more and more and more so.

republican we're all going to grab a rope and. we're home and. we're doing a for you we're doing a good vocal. but where the northern territory with us so side right is three and a half times the national average wedding to an indigenous can't just say how culturally appropriate methods are being used to heal and say they are. david cole runs which means creation in the local language it's about giving the kids a safe place and a culturally appropriate place to just. get away from things play them on share

some tools of the. human some seeds are understanding and bicycle for the challenges i got. to just let things go and how's a culturally appropriate the biggest aspect of the problem is cultural reconnection it's getting the kids to build their self-esteem and true identity and culture and that's that's a key component of the program. for about a week at this one nine high risk youths are being put to task. for. making traditional weapons to help break connect them to their ancient culture. more than forty thousand history. with traditional dance

i. and smoking ceremonies to cleanse. all but one of these adolescents have thought of committing suicide and are recovering from drug and alcohol addictions. we can't identify them because they're under age ranging from twelve to sixteen years old. to early and hoping to heal. you know the violence the broken families the loss of identity the various forms of abuse physical mental emotional. substance abuse drug and alcohol. can be drug and alcohol around the kids and ultimately the kids being embroiled in that substance abuse themselves.

first indigenous psychologist professor pat dudgeon. says substance abuse is a symptom of largest social issues i think that indigenous people are still dealing with all the problems that are a consequence from. all of that prying has been left unattended and just manifested through the generations and that plane passed on to the children and site has led to the children that we have today who at the end of that they don't understand the price that i must understand where it comes from and i don't understand why they must endure such prying. this fifteen year old who can bring is one boy who wanted to end his life mom. she kind of man you just. don't feel lucky. now so awful.

what do you do with that anger. so i do bad things. because. that's where you find the drugs and stuff like that with a little help from nature david cole is trying to show these adolescents how to isolate their problems. if there's violence broken family if there's been past abuse if there's been whatever it is every challenge every problem that bothers you or is on your mind i want you to get iraq i want you to just paul along the edge of the water. the bigger the problem the bigger the rock. how does it how do they feel is it hurting. and that's what problems do you if you refuse to find ways of releasing that you will have to carry this pine tree your whole life you have to learn you have to be willing to learn how to let go i had

a lot of sort of pre. let. young people need to be given. that they culture. being cultural activities and feel that they are part of a community and a cultural community. so we're only going to a small healing session a meditation and just. to finish for last not. this is the healing circle. and indigenous version of a counseling session. which is going to go through a very. reading meditation technique. in accordance with aboriginal custom for the young boys to speak at the healing circle but they're encouraged to. we are.

both. cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. like. and. respect and. the challenge lies in keeping these boys on track after they leave the balun you camp it's really hard it's hard for us because. thirty percent of the kids are extreme hard risk area and they were kids tend to be deeply involved in substance abuse are the ones who are looking at suicide as an option from the sky. so we feel a lack of resources and lack of appropriate funding and support we we can't do

adequate follow up marion scrymgour is an outgoing state minister in the northern territory government she's skeptical that money from a controversial government package is reaching indigenous communities under the northern territory emergency response there was nearly soaring billion dollars that significant tax pis money that's gone into what people think has gone into these communities a lot of their money is spent on bureaucrats consultants a lot of people fly in fly out from these communities there is very little money that goes into pride grains and for working with families working with communities so that they can build it and start dealing with that with the trauma. she says she's leaving politics because she doesn't believe it's hoping aboriginals enough heck can i sit in this job any longer i don't what i'm doing. we've got i ten

year old young kids killing themselves it's clear something is wrong. and communities have got to stop taking some seven strong stay. because there's not going to be a generation left if. we're heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous onil and just a few years ago the community of state made the highest rates of having time the well at its highest point had never been held in the late decided to take matters into their own hands. gayly america you know is a ski beach older she says it was the hanging suicide of a twenty one year old that sparked a cluster of other suicides in her community he was the first one to commit suicide

. the first time his community in this community. gail his youngest sister also committed suicide that was when her family took action seven years ago creating a volunteer service called the mango suicide prevention group what do you do to prevent suicide in the community. with our walk me and my sisters we walk the streets and listen for the noise where it's coming from. the women run a twenty four hour suicide watch often patrolling the streets with only small torches they mediate in family issues and mental troubled youths who are probably up the next day. go to their house and see them have cuppa tea read with their pears they've named seven or letting their angry with you but like canceling.

local police say the group's work has been invaluable or believed that since they've become operating i think there's been a source saw it in their area and while suicide numbers have dropped there's been a shop rise in attempted suicides looking at the figures from thirty two thousand and two to two thousand and i where there was forty or ten now and just two year period two and a half he's the one hundred thirteen that's a significant increase. nick still bears the road marks from his suicide attempt to weeks ago. group intervened just in time to save the twenty three year old. two months. the reason i've been doing this was because my biggest problem is with alcohol and once i start drinking alcohol i start losing control i would think things like my family doesn't love me and i want to go hang

myself with them and i don't want to learn to new i want to change my life a better life so that i can spend time with my son go hunting and fishing with him and do good thing on the. back in mowanjum terence told me he wants to cut down the tree where he attempted suicide. or lucrative. you know. to me that's a staple of someone going forward. but then remove something of a symbol that. they want to end their life and. in its own way the community too is giving itself the space to heal. the trees were families but people commit suicide it's up and down but we don't actually care

because the time it takes to grow back gives us the time to get over forget about it. while suicide remains a scourge in aboriginal communities across astray it appears that family and culture is indigenous australia is best hope to saving the young. australia of last generation so that was back in twenty twelve which leads us to ask how successful have those schemes been in reducing the suicide rate where we're joined now by psychologist professor pat dudgeon who you recognize from the film a former commissioner of the stray and national mental health commission she teaches at the university of western australia and actually runs a number of suicide prevention projects focusing on aboriginal communities it's

great to have you with us here on ri one professor dudgeon you really believe then that that local approach works oh absolutely look every channel interest right on the people have been just some pad there's a whole lot of issues facing women not just us and astride this old. would remain issues the indigenous people of settler countries such as in new zealand canada and the states where recovery from call on is a really important issue and what we do on the names that enable people to become empowered to control their own destinies to control their own resources to decide what the problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is back in twenty twelve when the film was made the wood epidemic was used to describe that situation in western australia and i'm not suggesting for a moment that this would be fixed overnight but we are now six years down the track

the levels are still high there were some reports which talk about one hundred times the national average in western australia. i mean would you have expected or certainly hoped for it to have come down more local i think that's. sometimes those figures have been a tad sensationalized suicide writes however having said that suicide rites do remind very hard we're still twice the national average suicide is the fifth leading cause of death and some my group's indigenous people are seven times more likely to type their laws the papal and northern territory actually is a mage in as. having the greatest state average of suicide when you have having a high suicide right something is going terribly wrong you mentioned some other countries a little bit earlier places like new zealand and canada what is the common factor with these indigenous communities around the world including the aboriginal australia that leads to the high suicide rates ah look there's a commonality of

a range of different things but odd side that certainly i think there is an affinity with those other countries because they were indigenous people in those countries the countries were taken and sometimes very almost tong's very brutally so we've had processes of colonize asian you know being removed genocides being removed off country put into reserves missions residential schools and then having new laws dictated to enforce legislation so there is a history told the countries that are about people losing their they draw it's losing their countries and losing their human rights which needs to be we need to go into recovery about certainly in a stride. there was denial of that that process of history

that's now starting to change change around certainly are proud then prime minister kevin rudd's apology to the stolen generations was one of the guys really his. sturrock all my months where there was an acknowledgement of the harm done and a genuine polity given full that. i think that we as a nation can stop hailing when i'm in a ship and and there is a treason on the state between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the national mental health commission it's been a pleasure talking to thank you for joining us my pleasure kemal and that is it from us or join us again next week and also be sure to check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come all santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us so you can see.

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