Calls for cultural support after cluster of suicides among South Asian women in Melbourne

More accessible, culturally appropriate support services are needed for South Asian women in the City of Whittlesea, the coroner overseeing an investigation into the suicides of four women in the community has found.

Source: SBS

The coroner overseeing an investigation into the deaths of four South Asian women in one area of Melbourne has called for more to be done to help vulnerable women in the community.

Releasing her findings on Tuesday from the Coroners Court of Victoria, Coroner Audrey Jamieson acknowledged there was an "elevated frequency of suicides" among South Asian women in 2018 in the local government area of the City of Whittlesea, compared with one such death for the period 2009-2015. 

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