‘Enough is enough’: 121 Indigenous Victorians have died by suicide in the past five years
Steady2 outlets reported this in 2 reports over 2 days
Tue, 25 August 2026Tue, 1 September 2026
What it is about
Royal commissionIndigenous health serviceVictorian parliamentNT inquiryAcacia IT health patient record systemNT government departmentNorthern Territory
Who published it, and when
original reportfirst to report
The Guardian World
ABC News (Australia)
25 Aug, 07:06over 7 days1 Sept, 07:34
How it spread - 2 original reports
Tue, 25 August 2026
1 report- The Guardian World07:06first to report
Royal commission recommended First Nations healing centres in 2021 but the Indigenous health service says the state has ‘done nothing’ to fund it Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast On the steps of Victorian parliament stood 121 empty chairs, marking the number of Indigenous lives lost to suicide in the state in the past five years. All of these deaths, the state’s peak body for Aboriginal health said, came after...
Tue, 1 September 2026
1 report- ABC News (Australia)07:34
A parliamentary inquiry has released its report into the Northern Territory's $335 million Acacia IT health patient record system, finding the culture within an NT government department contributed to the project's failings.