Indigenous youth suicide across the Pilbara

The West Australian government has announced it will hold a parliamentary inquiry into Indigenous youth suicide across the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. It follows the apparent suicide of a 10-year-old girl in the remote community of Looma in early March. Tired The Education and Health Standing Committee of the West Australian parliament says it will investigate the high rate of suicide in the state's remote areas. A parliamentary inquiry will look at young Indigenous lives in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions and why suicide rates seem to be soaring.

A 2014 protest in London after a report on the suicide rate in Aboriginal communities Source: AAP