Governor general calls for new approaches to address suicide rate

Suicide is leading cause of death of Australians under 44, Sir Peter Cosgrove tells a suicide prevention conference in Hobart and there are no easy answers

The governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, has urged governments and researchers to come up with new and creative approaches to stop the 2,500 suicides around the country every year.

Opening the National Suicide Prevention Conference in Hobart on Monday, Cosgrove said Australia’s suicide rate was “not a situation that any society can tolerate”.

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