Sussan Ley: we have not done enough to curb Indigenous suicide rate

Health minister admits suicide and incarceration rate ‘unacceptably high’ at roundtable to discuss mental illness in Indigenous communities

Governments and health providers have not done enough to curb the devastatingly high Indigenous suicide rate, the federal health minister Sussan Ley has admitted.

Three senior frontbenchers, including Ley, met community leaders and mental health experts at a roundtable in Canberra aimed at discussing the often hidden problem of mental illness in Indigenous communities.

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