Migrant Suicides

Suicide prevention needs people on the ground, not just talk

The grim reality is that the suicide toll is climbing

Our government are not serious about suicide

Suicide toll - stop the shameless research, just disaggregate

Gerry Georgatos

Gerry Georgatos is a suicide prevention and trauma recovery researcher. He coordinates social justice projects and aid work through the non-tertiary Institute of Social Justice and Human Rights. He is also the national coordinator of the National Indigenous Critical Response Service and the National Migrant Youth Support Service and has associations with the First Nations Homelessness Project, Ngalla Maya Aboriginal Corporation’s post-prison to employment project and Wheelchairs for Kids.

One million people around the world die by suicide each year
One in 55 Australian deaths each year is by suicide
One in 17 deaths of the descendants of Australia’s First Peoples is by suicide
Child suicides are increasing – of Australian children aged 12 years and less, 80 per cent of deaths by suicide are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children