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and welcome once again to rewind and. 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 on one east 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 restraints in kimberley and western australia tree stumps they use to mark the site 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. to take

care of the land. a using their bush skills. study but it's a different bank that ensures. that a socialist pull out. all works or whatever. but recently these ranges have had to a quiet a new set of skills. to respond non-verbal to thought 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 speak with people in the community. there's been more suicides there than anywhere else in the region just about every single family has been touched by suicide. is a suicide response worker for the. area he's been working here for more than seventeen news hundred or more has become in this community. very year old

kids. want to hang actually mark out the tree where i didn't want to hang. out in the kimberley region. in the human race you know it's probably thirty completed in the last twelve months. and that's an epidemic. mark the spot where people have committed suicide. serving as an eerie reminder of the on time the deaths. families guard down. just like you don't want to see it brings back. bad memories.

best friend killed himself here a few months ago he was just eighteen years old if someone commits suicide it affects the whole community. or 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 didn't know what for. just turning eighteen so i think about it too. and the sound of suicide in his sleep. i just like. people shouting in the night saying somebody help this person want to commit suicide or hang themselves.

lloyd no good believes a lack of opportunity is contributing to a downward spiral there's nothing there for them but alcohol and drugs there's 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 along and drink three times as much. as try to you know normal sitting for the boys to have a drink is ninety cans of beer. with copious amounts of know. and drink that you and i and then go back next time get a sign with often the whole white on a hole. and not even flinch. terence

james often finds himself in a drug and alcohol haze. we go and have a good time. and broke smoke weed. a few years ago when he was high and depressed terence tried to hang himself. as i hear that happened the oh well here. 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 going to get it from going on. waist that brought him to me and one of my mind in my mind it's cool blank you know the day no one went over here to him one of them and with them. getting one.

just. like over them then one would mean and. you know in my muscle. republican we're all going to grab a rope and. we're back home and. we're doing a for you we're doing a good feel for. where the northern territory within us so aside 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 save 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. can some seeds of understanding and by sickly help them which are the challenges i got. to just let things go and how is it culturally appropriate the biggest aspect of the problem is cultural reconnection it's getting the kids to build their self-esteem and pride through identity and culture and that's a key component in the program. six camps a year. 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. or 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 plane 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 pain that i must understand where it comes from and i don't understand why they must endure such crying. this

fifteen year old who can bring is one boy who wanted to end his life. she can and i'm angry just. now so awful. what do you do with that anger. my friends do bad things. because. that's where you find the drunks 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 might 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 a whole lot 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. go but. we are. both. cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. like you and i. respect and. more. 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 heart risk area and there were kids to be deeply involved in substance

abuse and the ones who are looking at some sort of an option from the sky. with their lack of resources and lack of appropriate from being and support we we can't do adequate follow up marion scrymgour is an outgoing state minister in the northern territory government she skeptical that money from a controversial stay dry government package is reaching indigenous communities under the northern territory emergency response there was a story 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 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. their communities have got to start taking some strong staying. because there's not going to be a generation left if. we're heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous land just a few years ago the king. it hits gave me the highest rates of having time no well at its highest point average for the elderly ladies decided to take matters into their own hands.

is a ski beach 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 in his community in this community. also committed suicide that was when her family took action seven years ago creating a volunteer service called the manga suicide prevention group what do you do to prevent suicide in the community. 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 will probably up the next

day go to their house and sit down have cuppa tea read with their parents then and so they were letting angry with the brits like canceling. local police say the group's work has been invaluable for boys that since they've become operating i think there's been a suicide 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 has an eye where there was forty or ten now industries two year period two and hafiz the one hundred thirteen that's a significant increase. is nick still bears the rope marks from his suicide attempt to weeks ago. galas group intervened just in time to save the twenty three year old. yeah 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 the moon 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 live kind of you know man. well to me that's a step 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 trees were families but people commit suicide it's up and down but we don't actually care as. 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 a stray it appears that family and culture is indigenous australia is best hope to saving their young. australia of last generations 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 astray 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 a stride in 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 eye and resources to decide what the problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is

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 of still high there are 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 look i think that sometimes those figures have been a tad sensationalized suicide writes however having said that suicide writes do a mind very hard with still twice the national average suicide is the fifth leading cause of death and some i groups indigenous people are seven times more likely to type their laws the papal and northern territory actually is a major 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's 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 really historical moments where there was an acknowledgement of the harm done and a genuine polity given for that how i think that we as a nation can start healing when and and this is a truce a non est between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the national mental health commission it's been a pleasure talking to you 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. from the whole team thanks for

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