Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Tomorrow, 10 September 2019, is World Suicide Prevention Day. Yesterday, today and tomorrow eight Australians will take their own lives—on average, five men and three women, every single day in Australia. For every one person that takes their life, around 30 will attempt to take their own lives. If you extrapolate those figures out, eight people take their own lives every day; 240 attempt to take their own lives. These figures are an absolute disgrace. They are a blight on our society. Tomorrow, as a country, we come together for World Suicide Prevention Day. I know this is an issue about which concern is shared across the chamber. It's something that we need to work together on. I would encourage all my colleagues, both on this side and the other, to attend the parliamentary friendship group for mental health on 16 September in the House of Representatives alcove to take part in that process, to learn more about suicide prevention, because it is something that touches each and every single one of us.