An analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of north Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape
This is the first systematic and comprehensive examination of suicides in Aboriginal communities in Queensland based on community records and available mortality figures. The data provides a picture which is notably different from that for suicide generally, in Queensland and across Australia.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms used in this report
- Executive summary
- Background of the project and methods
- Rationale and structure of the report
- Literature review
Patterns and correlates of suicide in far north Queensland- The symbolic meaning and cultural context of hanging
- The Yarrabah story: 1900-1999
- Commentary
- References
- Appendices
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Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service & the Yarrabah Community Council
James Cook University of North Queensland, School of Psychology and Sociology
Ernest Hunter
Joseph Reser
Mercy Baird
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Publication approval number: 2831Report prepared in May 1999
Text revised in October 2000
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