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“Poverty kills. Domestic violence, sexual abuse, bullying, substance misuse, mental unwellness, are many times more likely for those experiencing... https://t.co/d53ikR4csC

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25 percent of Australia’s suicide toll were of individuals who lived in public housing. Of suicide affected Australian families that have become known to me over... https://t.co/hyyVJyrxG4

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The Australian suicide toll and poverty intersect. I estimate thereabouts 25 percent of Australia’s suicide toll were of individuals who lived in public housing. https://t.co/7VoEhYZ771

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We’re at the end of 2019's first quarter and tragically the Australian suicide toll stands at 750 thus far. https://t.co/DpkTWZC4iT

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"Have to keep on screaming. Youth suicide crisis. It's 11 First Nations youth aged 18 years & less lost to suicide in last 60 days. Haven't forgotten 12 year old & 5 other non-Indigenous children lost to suicide, same period. We were not put on this... https://t.co/r8kqZFoSqK

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“My mum is Aboriginal – she’s from South Australia. All my kids are Aboriginal, my missus is Aboriginal, and they’re trying to send me to a... https://t.co/HwpjBJXVdj

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I remember the distraught family of a young man who only a week before his suicide had run into a burning house and rescued a young mother and her baby. https://t.co/Pv5XTAVrAh

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I remember a 10-year-old child lost to suicide. The year before she found her 11-year-old first cousin had taken their... https://t.co/Pv5XTBd2rP

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Please attend this vitally important free premiere and please SHARE this post. Much love and respect. https://t.co/TB8IG0Tnqb

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“All I remember is him putting me on the table in the bathroom..." All forms of child sexual abuse must come to an... https://t.co/qVHMhjGIfW

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Trauma recovery foremost... https://t.co/7EURVsUIm2

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We now begin a new campaign. Fines must be affordable or otherwise they are discriminatory. Fines should be income assessed, their affordability ensured. Scandinavian models have demonstrated that this can be achieved. https://t.co/Dvqunf4a4H

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Racism provides this lesson, that one can betray fellow sufferers and suffer less, and that a few can get to the table. https://t.co/LYSJ9IYEkp

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There are 300,000 homeless Australians, not nearly 120,000 as the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports. There are more than 180,000 families on the public housing... https://t.co/dtxpVo46TK

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There are no words possible to any family after the loss of their child. I remember each child’s funeral that I have attended. I remember the... https://t.co/G2PsTncGsQ

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“These communities have been degraded by one government after another,”... “The marker of their degradation is not the lack of... https://t.co/i7MZsMP4cD

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Child suicides are no longer rare. Child suicide rates are the highest they have ever been. More than 40,000 children aged 12 to 17 years are known to make a suicide attempt. One quarter of 16-year-old females self-harm. https://t.co/G2PsTncGsQ

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The death of a child is always heartbreaking but when it is by suicide it is as devastating as it gets, with long-term negative psychosocial... https://t.co/G2PsTncGsQ

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The revocation of Aljhelie’s visa “must be at the forefront” of the legal action.

“This Kafkaesque power must be removed from... https://t.co/uMS5X27vf9

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"Some of them will have spent significant stretches at Christmas Island detention centre and their return will imbue a harrowing sense of the inescapable from a reprehensible predicament.” https://t.co/MK68YXnAr7