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Pat Dudgeon

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Professor, The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Western Australia

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November 22, 2022

Locking up kids has serious mental health impacts and contributes to further reoffending

Summer May Finlay, University of Wollongong; Ee Pin Chang, The University of Western Australia; Jemma Collova, The University of Western Australia, and Pat Dudgeon, The University of Western Australia

Where is the justice for young people whose mental health is impacted by being incarcerated?

Over the past five years, one in every four children who died by suicide in Australia was Indigenous. Shutterstock

March 29, 2019

Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?

Pat Dudgeon, The University of Western Australia and Tanja Hirvonen, Flinders University

Poverty and social exclusion play a big role in Indigenous child suicide. The causes are complex but we know enough to act now to reduce the number of deaths in our communities.

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