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Category: Suicide in Australia

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The Prolonged Effect of COVID-19 on Suicide Rates

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to re-evaluate our response to mental health as the…

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Deaths of Despair

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 27, 2020

Princeton researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton have dubbed suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol-related liver…

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Seniors, Social Isolation and Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 13, 2020

The suicides we choose to ignore: The incidence of suicide in older adults is often…

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Secular Society and Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 25, 2019

Secularism, as defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the “indifference to, or rejection or exclusion…

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‘Towards Zero’ Target for Suicide Rates in Australia

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 5, 2019January 2, 2021

Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has appointed Christine Morgan, CEO of the National Mental Health…

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With Suicide Rates Trending Upwards, What Can We Do To Help?

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 29, 2018August 3, 2019

There were 3128 suicide deaths in Australia in 2017, according to the ABS Causes of…

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Working Together to Prevent Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 7, 2018August 6, 2019

Monday September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year the theme is Working Together…

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A Narrative of Hope

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 26, 2018August 2, 2019

On Sunday we witnessed my niece’s baptism at a church in Mooroolbark. She shared with…

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Pathways to Suicide

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 28, 2017August 7, 2019

It wasn’t as though the farm hadn’t seen death before, and the blowflies didn’t discriminate.…

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The Angel of the Gap

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 6, 2017January 23, 2023

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie (1927-2012) lived near a well-known Sydney suicide hotspot…

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Bruce Rickard

Bruce Rickard

Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.

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