An Overview of Indigenous Suicide (IN: Suicide Prevention: The Global Context. Proceedings of the 19th Congress of the IASP, March 1997, ed. by R J Kosky et al)

In this article the author discusses the elevated suicide rate in young Australian aboriginal males, which 2 decades ago was extremely low. Changing roles & status of young males are touched upon, as well as the issues of drugs, alcohol, unemployment, family conflict, fatalism, & emotional despair.