Debbie Guest; 16/10/08
Sitting in his backyard in Narrogin, a small wheatbelt town 190km southeast of Perth, Jock Abraham can’t forget the day he frantically tried to save his 32-year-old son, Joel, whom he found hanging from a tree. “I went into the backyard and saw him at the tree,” Mr Abraham said. “I thought he must have been hiding from me, then I got closer and realised something was wrong. He wasn’t standing … he was hanging there, he was already dead.” Joel was one of six Aboriginal men who have committed suicide in the past six months in Narrogin. Two whites have also taken their lives and four other Aborigines have attempted suicide in the past six months in an inexplicable crisis that is tearing the town apart.
See; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24503642-5013404,00.html
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Deaths