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Senate enquiry into suicide in Australia
The Australian Commonwealth Government has recently announced a Senate Inquiry into Suicide in Australia. Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) welcomes this unique opportunity to recognise and promote the diverse experiences and views of Australians to help strengthen our community’s responses to suicide and self-harm prevention, intervention and postvention.
As Australia’s leading advocate for suicide and self-harm prevention, SPA intends to make a comprehensive submission to the Senate Inquiry. As part of SPA’s submission, we hope to represent the voices of Australians by including personal stories from people who have been affected by suicide.
Every story is important. We invite you to have your say by sharing your story and allowing us to incorporate it into SPA’s submission. Your story may reflect any number of possible personal experiences with suicide. For example, you may be a suicide attempt survivor, bereaved by suicide, a caregiver of someone who is suicidal or bereaved by suicide, a witness of suicide, you may have dealt with suicide in the workplace, have been impacted by media reporting of suicide, or simply be a concerned community member. Your personal story may also include ideas about how we can create a more connected, inclusive, resilient and safer community.
To gather these stories, we have created a dedicated page on the SPA website where people can upload their individual stories. Please visit www.suicidepreventionaust.org to find out more.
Personal stories can be submitted on the website until Wednesday 28th October 2009.