Indigenous call for help reaches the community
The rates of Aboriginal suicide in Australia are not in decline and are much higher than the rates of non-Indigenous people. With no specific centre for Aboriginal people to go to when in need of help, the struggle for the Indigenous community has been a long and hard road. Now, there are calls to change this.
Indigenous activist Tauto Sansbury recently started a community movement to do something about it and he is campaigning for a 24 hour Crisis Centre where Aboriginal people can go for help with serious life issues such as suicide and depression.So far over 3000 people have signed the petition for the crisis centre and once it reaches 5000, Tauto says he will take it to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Paul Caica, to discuss matters further.He says the centre is long overdue considering the high death rates in the Aboriginal community and that if there was already such a facility, then many lives could have been saved.