A regional profile of suicide in Queensland follows on from earlier work which failed to find urban-rural differences in suicide rates. Rates were higher in the north of the state & lower in the more developed south. Rural Queensland health regions displayed both the lowest & the highest suicide rates. Socioeconomic factors correlated with these differences in some regions. Suicide rates for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, especially the young, were high & may have contributed to elevated suicide rates in northern Queensland but the numbers were insufficient to account for observed differences. (10 refs.)