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Culture is key for Aboriginal youth</h1></div><div><b>Suicide rates in Australia's Indigenous youth are among the highest in the world. In the Sydney suburb of La Perouse, charity organisation First Hand Solutions is convinced it has part of the answer.</b><div>
<br></div><div>By <br>Ella Archibald-Binge <br><br>Nestled on the headland of Botany Bay, the La Perouse community has not been protected from the issues plaguing much of Indigenous Australia.<br><br>Peter Cooley of charity organisation First Hand Solutions said the community had a lot to tackle.<br>
<br>"We've seen our youth in and out of juvenile detention centres and sadly we've experienced our young people committing suicide," he said.<br><br>"I'm a big believer, through my experience of working with youth, that it's this dispossession of culture that is playing a part there somewhere."<br>
<br>A new report by the University of New South Wales supported Mr Cooley's theory.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:large"></span>Access full article below: </div>
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