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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 $100.00 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 2012 this is australia's last generation. remote and picturesque. the kimberley in north west australia. a vast area 3 times the size of england.

the traditional lands of the good range is. most needed. to take care of the land. a using the bush skills. study but it's a different thing that we are. going to pull. over $100.00 metres. but recently these ranges have had to a quiet a new set of skills. to to respond to so 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 350 people. and is about 8 kilometers away from the town of. it situated in the kimberley. the week before we arrived there had been another 5 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 cooling 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

17 years her normal has become in this community. very year old kids. want to hang in there actually mark out the tree we're identified trees that they want to hang. out in the kimberley region. in the kimberley region it's probably 30 completed in the last 12 months. and that's an epidemic. mark the spot where people have committed suicide. serving as an eerie reminder of the on timely deaths. families guard down. just like they don't want to say it brings back. bad memories

but that night. we. best friend killed himself here a few months ago he was just 18 years old if someone commits suicide it affects the whole community so like we all are one big family is not the 1st 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 18 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 . hang themselves.

lloyd no get 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. michael ogilvy takes us to a popular spot the adults and children go to drink alcohol kimberly's allowing him to drink 3 times as much i'll hold you know him try to you know normal sitting for the boys to have a drink is 90 cans of beer. it's copious amount you know. and they'll drink that you and i and then go back next time good assignment i'll spend the whole white on a home. and not even flinch. terrence

james often finds himself in a drug and alcohol haze. we go on to have a good time you know. going broke some of weed. a few years ago when he was high and depressed terence tried to hang himself. as i hear that happened in the oh well here. for with 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 going from going on. waist the truck and going and one of my mind in my mind that school blank you know

the day no one went over here to him one of them i would hope oh getting one i don't know just. like nobody don't then worry what mean and oh you know more and more and more so. the father come along and grab the rope and. we're home and. we're doing a for you we do want to give them full. aware of the northern territory with us so site right is 3 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 belling you which means creation in the local language it's about giving the kids a safe place and a culturally appropriate place to just have some time out get away from things play them on share some tools of the. him some say the understanding and. for 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 through identity and culture and that's a key component of the program. for about a week at this 19 high risk youths are being put to task. for.

making traditional weapons to help break them to their ancient culture. more than 40000 history. with traditional dance. and smoking ceremonies to cleanse. 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 12 to 16 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. ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback 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 pain 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 15 year old who can bring is one boy who wanted to end his life. 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 most 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. that is how do

they feel is it hurting. and that's what problems do you if you refuse to find ways of releasing it 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 set of 3. lead. young people need to be given. that they culture and 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. 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 the young boys forced to speak at the healing circle but they're encouraged to. go but for the old who feel like we're. both from a. cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. ok i. like you and i. respect. the challenge lies in keeping these boys on track after they leave the balun you can't it's really hard it's hard for us because. 30 percent of the kids are

extreme hard risk area and there were kids to be deeply involved in substance abuse and 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 skeptical that money from a controversial government package is reaching indigenous communities under the northern territory emergency response there was only story $1000000000.00 that's significant tax payers 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 programs 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 doing what i'm doing. we've got i 10 year olds you know 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 general. left as. we're heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous land just amusing go to the community of state made the highest rates of having time know how at its highest point and then the elderly lady decided to take matters into their own hands.

is a ski beach she says it was the hanging suicide of a 21 year old that sparked a cluster of other suicides in her community he was the 1st one to commit suicide. the 1st time his community in this community. youngest sister also committed suicide that was when her family took action 7 years ago creating a volunteer service called the mangas 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 24 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 a cup or 2 read with their peers so they were not in that angry with him but like cancelling. the local police say the group's work has been invaluable for boys that since they've become operating i think there's been a source saw it in their area and later while suicide numbers have dropped there's been a shop rise in attempted suicides looking at the figures from $32000.00 treated to have an eye where there was 40 or 10 now and just as 2 year period 2 and a half he's the $113.00 that's a significant increase. shankara juarez nick still bears the rope marks from his suicide attempt to weeks ago. galas group intervened just in time to save the 23

year old. 2 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 money 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 things. back in mowanjum terence told me he wants to cut down the tree where he attempted suicide. or lucrative. you know me. you know to me that's a staple of someone going forward with a positive move. but then remove something of

a symbol that. they want to end their life me. 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 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 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 2012 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 a stride in this old. would remain issues for 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 iron resources to sod what the

problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is 2012 when the film was made the would 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 6 years down the track the levels are still high there were some reports which talk about 100 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'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 5th leading cause of death and some my group's indigenous people are 7 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'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 the there was denial of that that process of history that's now starting to change chinese around certainly are proud then prime minister kevin rudd's apology to the stolen generations was one of the guys really his. sturrock all moments where there was an acknowledgement of the harm done and a genuine polity given for that hound so i think that we as a nation can start healing when ownership and and there is a truce or non est between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the australian 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

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