Experts urge Albanese government to pass federal law requiring all draft policy measures be checked against their suicidal ideation risk
Suicide is the main cause of death for younger Australians and was behind more than one-third of deaths among 15- to 24-year-olds in 2022, data shows.Suicide is the main cause of death for younger Australians and was behind more than one-third of deaths among 15- to 24-year-olds in 2022, data shows.
Murray said robodebt exemplified how a legislative check could have “changed the path for a number of people who died by suicide as a result”.“If we’d had a suicide prevention act in place before that program was rolled out, the appropriate safety measures would have been put in place – or would have been modified in the way it was rolled out – and we would have saved lives.”
Any suicide prevention strategy “must do more than support people who are experiencing suicidal distress – it must also reduce the likelihood of people experiencing suicidal distress in the first place,” it says.
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